Word: maneuverers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the White Sox have power and speed to spare, Richards has the problem of a shaky pitching staff. His solution: the now-famous switch maneuver against Boston, and a constant juggling, prodding and pushing of his other players. Richards' hustling White Sox, a tooth & nail team, is already...
When Matt Ridgway took up his new jobs in Tokyo, he said to Van Fleet: "I won't get in your hair, Van." But Van Fleet is carrying on Ridgway's strategy-to save the maximum allied lives by maneuver, to kill the maximum enemy troops by massed...
MacArthur: "We could hold in Korea by constant maneuver . . . but could hope at best for only an indecisive campaign with its terrible and constant attrition . . ."
While everybody in Washington wanted to talk about MacArthur, Georgia's cagey and crusty Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, set out to pilot the controversial draft bill through the House. As usual, his performance was a lesson in skilled parliamentary maneuver. He knew that he...
Dictator Juan Peron, always at pains to keep his dirty work legal, executed a maneuver last week that gave the sanction of the law to the strangling of La Prensa. By terms of the law, the great independent newspaper was expropriated by the government.