Word: helm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, by this week, everybody under the State Department's grey, gabled eaves knew that there was indeed a new man at the helm. But Ed Stettinius had only begun. Further changes "strengthening the Department" were promised...
...will lease or sell the Humphrey (which he plans to rechristen the Captain John Roen), or make her the flagship of his own fleet. But one thing is sure: when the Captain John Roen clears port next spring on her maiden voyage, Captain John Roen will be at the helm...
...A.C.S.'s President Thomas Midgley Jr. complained that scientific progress was suffering from "too many old men at the helm." An inventor who made his most important discovery (tetraethyl lead in gas) at 33, Dr. Midgley, now 55, cited cases (e.g., Sir William Perkin's invention of aniline dyes at 18) to show that invention is a young man's game. Said he: "Every executive who has lived beyond the age of 40 is guilty, to some slight extent, of not getting out of the way of the younger...
...that would let them remain neutral, keep their German-given gains in Greece and Yugoslavia, protect German soldiers and weapons still in Bulgaria. But Moscow growled: "Bulgarian ruse . . . false maneuvers . . . subterfuge and secret connivance with the Germans! . . ." Down crashed the government of artful Prime Minister Ivan Bagrianoff. To the helm in Sofia went a Russophile cabinet headed by a leftist Peasant leader, Constantine Muraviev...
...Uniform shop can't get our whites here on time for graduation, and their grays split every time we bend over, we must have new leadership. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party and put Sam the Tailor at the helm. (This is not paid advertising; we just like...