Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three-minute timing tolerance that orders prescribed, the rockets zoomed off, beautifully vertical. Then, mission accomplished, Task Force 88 steamed smartly into Rio for a well-deserved five-day spell ashore. To Admiral Mustin and Captain Gralla, the Navy decided to award the Legion of Merit. And from Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke came a radio message for all hands: "A most hearty well-done" for a splendidly fulfilled pioneering task...
...ranking Army officer, General Lyman Louis Lemnitzer, 59, has a soldier's talents for open warfare, but like few he has a diplomat's deft touch for the quiet, unsung victory. Last week President Eisenhower, no mean soldier-diplomat himself, picked General Lemnitzer as the next Army Chief of Staff, to succeed retiring General Maxwell Taylor, 57, next July 1. Lemnitzer was the only new man on the President's list of appointees to the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Air Force's General Nathan Farragut Twining, 61, was reappointed chairman; Chief of Naval...
Operations Arleigh ("Thirty-One Knot") Burke, 57, got a third term; General Thomas Dresser White, 57, got a second term as Chief of Air Staff...
...Leavenworth, graduating in 1936. Scholarly, warm, modest, he quickly earned a name for getting things done, and in May 1941 Major Lemnitzer was assigned to the War Department's War Plans Division. He was a brigadier general in September 1942, when he joined General Dwight Eisenhower as assistant chief of staff in charge of planning Operation Torch, the North African invasion...
...operative programs such as the Administrative Institute are the chief way that the School of Education "has carried out its responsibility as a professional school," a pamphlet publicizing the Institute declared...