Word: gordian
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...solve the international Gordian knot...
...Gordian knot of manpower allocation is as tight as ever. President Roosevelt has sharpened the blade, but the actual cutting is yet to be done...
...bureaucrats can tie such a Gordian knot of red tape as the gold-braided bigwigs of the U.S. Navy. Last week a rawboned, scrannel-necked Texan was busy cutting through those knots with a vengeance. As new production boss of the Navy, Vice Admiral Samuel Murray Robinson had the tremendous job of getting material for the U.S. Fleet's gigantic warship and airplane program. He had no time for bureaucratic nonsense...
...Stalin's alliance with the Axis embarrassed its relations with both Spanish and Italian Fascism, and now because Hitler's vast military successes have made him as great a menace to Catholic interests as Stalin formerly was. Can Mr. Taylor show His Holiness how to cut this Gordian knot...
...takes its title from the legend of Philoctetes, who was first abandoned by the Greeks during the Trojan war because of a noisome, incurable wound, then sought out by them because of his magically invincible bow-symbol of the man of genius as pariah-savior and of the Gordian interdependence of power and neurosis. The two most important pieces in The Wound and the Bow are studies of that symbol in terms of1) Dickens, 2) Kipling...