Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editorial writers promptly dropped all editorials, the gripe column. General Richardson hurriedly explained that he "was willing" to let them gripe, he just did not want them to call names. Said Editor (Master Sergeant) Chick Avedon: "That's different...
...master of ceremonies was Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. In the row of admirals' heads in the paneled Navy Department board room, his cotton top stood out like a white flag. While Secretary Forrestal smiled approval, 60-year-old Admiral Nimitz formally presented the new cast of characters now taking over from 67-year-old Admiral King's war-weary team. As things go in the Navy, the accent was decidedly on youth: the new high command averaged five and a half years younger...
...accredited himself as "an old silk-hatter familiar with all the Great Hats of a great age," set the record straight: "The specimen ... is of the period of 1907 to 1914. The inverted pipe curl (not gutter, as stated) was conceived, not by a madman . . . but by a master born out of his time, like Picasso. He visualized a market of individualists, and his vision was inspired by deep study of 18th-Century social history. Unfortunately the vanguard of standardized man was already overrunning England, the last stronghold of the individualist, and his creation . . . was, alas, only transitory. By some...
...Suddenly Hiromichi wept. His aide bowed and presented me with a parchment on which the master had written a poem. Entitled World Brotherhood, it read...
...candidate was given a pile of construction material. With the help of two assistants, he was to complete a structure within ten minutes. The two "helpers" were stumblebum stooges, master tacticians at noncooperation and delay. What the psychiatrists wanted to see: how the candidate reacted to frustration...