Word: generalships
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...years of public homage. Statesmen like Henry Clay, authors like William Dean Howells, Mark Twain and Thackeray basked in his companionship. Longfellow and Joaquin Miller wrote poems about him. Women begged for samples of his bath water. Sixteen-year-old Queen Isabella of Spain offered him a generalship in her army...
Most notable piece of Rayburn generalship occurred in the summer of 1941, when Congress wrestled over extending the one-year life of the draft. For weeks it seemed certain Congress would defeat the bill. Sam Rayburn sweated day & night, persuading, cajoling, pleading with the members. Congressmen worried desperately over the political effect of the bill on mothers & fathers. But Sam Rayburn was convinced that defeat of the bill would be disastrous to the U.S. When the day for the vote arrived, Sam Rayburn was in a state of honest mental anguish; neither he nor anyone else knew for certain...
...rules are strictly Camp Butner's. For instance, decisions are rendered on the following scoring system: 50% for aggressiveness, 25% for blows landed, 25% for generalship, defense and condition at the round's end. Because few soldiers can keep below 120 lb. on G.I. food, there are no bantam or flyweight matches...
...lost the nomination to Warren Harding as a result of a last-minute smear involving campaign expenses. Four years later, he lost the nomination to Calvin Coolidge. rejected the nomination for vice president. He had previously turned down other high Government posts: McKinley offered him the First Assistant Postmaster Generalship, Taft wanted to make him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Harding offered him the Navy Secretaryship, Coolidge wanted him either as Secretary of Agriculture or Ambassador to Britain. In 1928 Lowden enjoyed a small corn-belt boom as independent candidate for the Presidential nomination; failing that, he retired to work...
...Germans attacked at an opportune time and a crucial place. The Russians were shifting their attention northward (see col. 3). The Russian excuse for the southern reverses-"unequal engagement," "numerically superior enemy"-disregarded the fact that it is the business of generalship never to be out-concentrated. The place of attack made the most of the Russian transport difficulties. The Russians, though unable to use Germans' narrower rail lines, had advanced just beyond three important rail junctions, Krasnograd, Lozovaya and Pavlograd, and the Germans recovered them early in the counter-drive...