Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Part of the trouble was the traditional conflict between airman and ground officer: Brigadier General Claire Lee Chennault, brilliant, unorthodox genius of the world's smallest fighting air force, had fallen out with his commander, Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell Jr., homely infantryman hero of the 1942 retreat from Burma...
...Germany's armory of defense, and that to beat it the U.S. and Britain must bring their best might & brains to bear. Into the supreme command of the German Navy, succeeding famed old Erich Raeder, moved thin-lipped Admiral Karl Doenitz, whom the Germans call the greatest submarine genius of history...
...late great William Butler Yeats was a poet of genius, a man of parts (of which few sold at popular prices), a deep-sea diver in the lugubrious pearl-gulfs of the occult, a political thinker to set men's teeth on edge...
...University Hall, that cutting of classes will be dealt with more harshly in the future, the entire student body is expected to cry out in defense of one of its most cherished liberties. But the rights of the undergraduates are not being needlessly trampled on, nor is an evil genius trying to return the Harvard student to the state of regimentation that he had hoped to escape after graduating from high school. The conditions that made leniency towards class attendance possible and advisable in the past have almost totally disappeared and with them, the former policy must...
...solid (in more than one respect) hours of Ellingtonia, I can only report that Duke lived up to and confirmed all but the very highest expectations. If "B B and B" did not successfully bring jazz to the concert stage, it did not deny the existence of Ellington's genius...