Word: echelons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appears we could ill afford the democratic luxury of electing a brash and youthful visionary without top-echelon experience to lead the free world in these critical days...
...section of the historical section of the International Brigade. It seems to have been one of the party's mistakes. Voros did not have it in him to be an executioner. He was shocked at the spectacle of an American comrade reveling in his role as a rear echelon judge-executioner; at the party's callousness to the common claims of humanity; e.g., mail from the American survivors of the Aragon rout of 1938 was left piled up in the party's Paris office because a comrade had swiped the stamp money. Also, he came to know...
...Monopoly subcommittee as it opened hearings into the shenanigans that led to the conviction of 29 electrical-equipment companies on charges of illegal price fixing. Judging by the speaker-General Electric's L. B. Gezon, former marketing manager of the low-voltage department-and nine other lower-echelon executives, the real fear was not of wrongdoing but of being caught...
...offset by Communist reprisals during his six-year term. At the same time they rebuffed the Communists by refusing even a seat on the Evangelical Church's governing council to Bishop Moritz Mitzenheim of Thuringia, the nearest thing to a fellow traveler in E.K.D. 's top echelon...
Three Roads. Now there are three roads open to Kennedy. He could pick an able man from the second echelon of Latin American experts (such as Ambassador to Brazil John Moors Cabot or ex-Ambassador to Cuba Philip Bonsai) and build him up to first rank by going to great personal lengths to stress the importance of both man and job. He could reach outside the ranks of Latin American specialists for a big name that would by itself prove the importance he attaches to the job. Or he could agree to Berle's terms...