Word: fidus
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...board is the President's fidus Achates, Harry Hopkins. Ostensibly appointed to give the Fullermen the benefit of his observations in Britain, he is also Franklin Roosevelt's outward sign of the board's inward grace and potency. PPB will be no bull-session board, in time may well supplant OPM as No.11 planning agency, keeping OPM busy doing the tasks PPB lays...
...false modesty; he has not failed. A tall striding man in mussed uniform and muddy boots" dominates these four hundred odd pages. Across the gulf of a century he has been transplanted from Tennessee to typemetal. And for the first time he thrives again, bawling orders to John Coffee, fidus Achates; shaking his flat under the brandy noses of a country jury; writing Rachel "Kiss my two sons," and in the next breath ordering the execution of Ambrister...
Spenlove and Fraley had shipped together since they were young men; eventually Fraley became commander of the ship Spenlove engineered. Fraley, of the incoherent bulldog breed, needed a lot of help when it came to women. Fidus Achates Spenlove supplied it. But in spite of him, Fraley's long and serious affair with a Manhattan girl went up in smoke. Then the War took them to the Mediterranean. In Salonika Fraley acquired a pleasant French mistress, Theroigne, left her flat when he saw her younger sister Francine. Francine was beautiful but had an ungovernable temper; when Theroigne tried...
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