Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy's famed Op-23, which masterminded the 1949 Revolt of the Admirals. Already moved directly under Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor from its place as a semidetached study unit, the group was soon well staffed with young colonels under Brigadier General L. C. Metheny, 49, a cool, sharp planner. Metheny & Co. began setting up the Army line with a long series of staff studies, transmitted first to the Army general staff and later to the field commanders. Liaison was established with sympathetic Democratic Senators, e.g., Washington's Henry ("Scoop") Jackson. One of Metheny's planners answered...
...Wall Streeter Franklin McClintock happily: "We don't even have time to brush our teeth!" Host Osawa lost his voice trying to shepherd his guests; all but mute, he finally bought a little brass whistle to signal moveon times. The week's entertainment cost Yoshio Osawa a cool $10,000. Last week, as the diehard Tigers prepared to return to the U.S. by a globe-girdling route, Charlie Caldwell announced that he and his fellow travelers had anted up more than $8,000 to set up "the Yoshio Osawa, 1925, Scholarship Fund." It will be used to send...
...years in prison for Nazi espionage; in a New York City hospital on Welfare Island. A soldier of fortune who played his crafty hand against England for more than 40 years, Duquesne dated his checkered career as international intriguer back to the Boer War (1899-1902). A cool, cunning poseur, he signed his reports to Germany with a rubber-stamp cat's paw, claimed to have plotted the sinking (1916) of Lord Kitchener's cruiser Hampshire. Chief G-man J. Edgar Hoover called his concerted FBI swoop (in 1941) on Duquesne's New York City...
...Powerful Force. In the face of such fire the U.S. remained cool. Making its own maneuvers in the game of international hostmanship, Washington entertained one of Asia's most important neutralists, with appropriate allusions to the struggles of a new nation for independence and stability (see below...
...recovers quickly from even the most awesome shellfire. This season, after winning his first three games, he was beaten in the next three, knocked out of the box twice. Another pitcher might have wondered whether that inevitable slide down had begun. Not Roberts. One night last week, with his cool and easy motion on the mound and his reckless behavior on the base paths, he beat the league-leading Milwaukee Braves almost singlehanded, 2-1. He struck out ten men, allowed only eight hits, tore home from second on an eighth-inning infield single, slid head first into...