Word: generalship
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...shadows, however, Temujin would create a nation and the most disciplined fighting force on the planet. First, he escaped the wild by making a good marriage. That alliance would lead to more critical alliances as Temujin learned to ply diplomacy and a ruthless militancy. Soon, his almost supernatural generalship would win him fiercely loyal followers, enough to offset a multiplicity of traitors and false friends. He vanquished the fractious tribalism of the Mongols by dispersing clansmen among regiments in an army that used death as discipline and looting as reward. Conquered peoples were divided among the armies, swelling the ranks...
...largely due to Hill's floor generalship that Princeton Coach Bill Carmody said, "Harvard controlled the game tonight. It was theirs from the outset...
DIED. GEORGES MARCHAIS, 77, France's die-hard Communist chief who inadvertently hastened his party's withering away; in Paris. Marchais remained a Stalinist, with unambiguous results: during his Secretary-Generalship (1972-94), the Communist Party's popular support dropped more than...
...assets in recent years has been stability: a sureness about the nation's place and purpose in the world as well as its material prospects. Inflation was reined in, exports rose comfortably, and a Socialist President managed to guide France's fortunes, at home and abroad, with the confident generalship of a De Gaulle. A people famous for crossing swords over the slightest trespass or ideological difference settled into a harmonious political dispensation...