Word: echeloning
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Manager of the Glee Club's successful tour of the Far East last year, Webster expressed disappointment at the State Department's refusal to provide any funds for the orchestra's projected tour. "I was annoyed at the lack of understanding on the part of lower echelon bureaucrats," he stated...
Throughout his lower-echelon Foreign Office career, handsome, curly-haired Guy Burgess was constantly in trouble, physically dirty and in debt; naturally, no one took seriously his close friendship with Atom Spy Alan Nunn May. Though a known homosexual and prone to savage fits of violence, flabby, fair-haired Donald Maclean was privy to top-level U.S. atomic information as wartime First Secretary in Britain's Washington embassy, later headed the American desk in the Foreign Office. To one casual acquaintance, Maclean's allegiance to Communism "stuck out a mile." Yet, though they might be "eccentric," both were...
...shallow attack, strong but untested midfield units, and last year's defense are the basic components of the University's varsity lacrosse team. Blessed with 13 returning lettermen and a promising block of sophomores, Coach Bruce Munro predicts that the Crimson Stickmen "will definitely be in the top echelon of the Ivy League" along with Princeton and Yale...
...President or Tancredo Neves, a financier-turned-politician, as Prime Minister would actually lead the country. In fact, neither does. Nobody does. In remote Brasilia, the fractious Parliament carries on politics as usual. The far left hopes to proceed from chaos to power. It is up to dedicated second-echelon technicians to slow inflation and keep the nation running...
...grey, temple-fagaded Treasury building next door to the White House, Dillon called for every document since 1789 that provided a job description of the Secretary's portfolio, then set out to make the department his own. Unlike Secretary of State Rusk, Dillon did not have his top echelon of aides picked in advance by Kennedy. He took advantage of his free hand to build a Treasury staff that moneymen rate as possibly the best since the days of Alexander Hamilton. Dillon's right-hand...