Word: brawne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life is forced upon us. ... The time for controversy has ended. ... I am not going to waste time arguing about past mistakes. ... I will order and direct. . . . There is only one shield against the spread of total war, that is total effort to end it. ... Brains and brawn are better than bets and beer...
Long distinguished for his brawn, he has new won publicity for his scientific ability by computing the orbit of the new comet discovered last Saturday by Fred L. Whippe, lecturer on Astronomy. The computation, described by Thomas as "a routine astronomical calculation," involved a differential equation with six arbitrary constants...
...Actually Semion Budenny is a man. He has lots of brawn on his fine body, but he also has more than his share of bone between his ears. He always was, and probably still is, a great fighter. But he is not a strategist. He is still a cavalry noncom of incredible dash and dumbness...
...Suave, powerful Emilio Fortes Gil, Provisional President of Mexico after the assassination of Obregon. As No. 1 brawn-truster to Avila Camacho, Gil probably knows as much about Mexican politics as any other living man, will thus be indispensable to the syndicate...
Compromise. Behind this happy front tangled the horns of forces that some day might grow bigger than Avila Camacho. Avila Camacho has surrounded himself with a coterie of military and political strong men. Most important among his brawn trusters...