Word: maneuverers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SIR: TIME'S CHARGE THAT I TRIED TO MANEUVER MYSELF INTO HARRY TRUMAN'S LAP AT A DEMOCRATIC LUNCHEON IS OFFENSIVELY FALSE. I GREETED MR. & MRS. TRUMAN AT HIS REQUEST. TALLULAH BANKHEAD NEW YORK CITY
In coping with this Japanese maneuver, the U.S. Third and Seventh Fleets. Admirals Halsey and Kinkaid commanding, left the five-day-old Leyte beachhead perilously unguarded. Rear Admiral Clifton "Ziggy" Sprague's light task force of baby flattops with a destroyer screen was cruelly trapped by a surprise attack...
Another maneuver designed to take advantage of the same weakness was a flashy double-reverse known as the "Sally Rand." The Quakers used it only twice; but the first time it went for a touchdown (from the Harvard 21), and on the other occasion it provided 24 crucial yards in...
Confident Democrats having a high old time together, all 900 luncheon eaters ($28 a plate) at Washington's Mayflower Hotel, applauded joyously one day last week when Party Faithful Tallulah Bankhead, wrapping her "dahlings" in her bourbon drawl, breathed spite upon the opposition. "Dirt is too clean a word...
Last week Nasser swung his broom. In a characteristically smooth maneuver for strengthening his own authority without bruising any feelings, he announced a reorganization of the U.A.R. government. The first result was to move Hourani as a member of the new central Cabinet out of Syria and into Egypt. A...