Word: generalships
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...part-time sports buff, decided to take the question to the nearest modern oracle: a computer. He asked 250 boxing writers and other ring experts to rate famous pugilists on a scale of 58 variables, ranging from the standard (speed, cutability, punching power) to the subtle (killer instinct, ring generalship, courage). With the help of a few experts, he studied shadowy old films and yellowed newspaper clippings of fights to determine the number and kinds of punches each boxer threw. Then he reduced the field to the 16 top-rated heavyweights, from bare-knuckled John L. Sullivan to fancydancing Muhammad...
...political diplomatist and used him as their liaison officer with the often fractious Congress. Some have argued, with only slight exaggeration, that O'Brien is responsible for passage of the bulk of New Frontier and Great Society legislation. Even after Johnson rewarded him with the postmaster-generalship in 1965, O'Brien continued his liaison work on the Hill...
...gave the Office of Economic Opportunity command of ten campaigns* to rescue the nation from want. Almost from the start, however, the antipoverty warriors have been fighting a losing battle on Capitol Hill. By now, a large segment of the Congress seems determined to divest the OEO of its generalship...
...tends to be a boxer." And after a year spent spurring South Viet Nam's army to action, Abrams is at last able to supply them with the M-16 rifles that Westmoreland requested in 1965 and other modern weaponry. Westmoreland, meanwhile, is not writing off his own generalship. "We have raised the cost by military means," he declared last week, "which brought them to the table in Paris...
Marshall's problem should ease considerably from now on as the cases that began during his solicitor generalship are slowly taken care of. By next year, it is expected that he will stay out of only 10% of the cases. Despite the current abstentions, however, he does not lack for work. He has written two of the 14 decisions in which he has taken part. And he has been handling an extra number of the "petitions that ask the court to hear a case. So great is his work load, in fact, that he is in his office most...