Word: mastermind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this ever-struggling world of Charlie "Metternich" Finely, Baron von Kroc (the Padres's mastermind of realpolitik) and Bob "Castlereagh" Short (since ousted from his Texas kingdom), the balance of power explains all. After a long winter season of pacts which guarantee support from the lackey ballplayers, baseball begins its annual summer campaign in early April. Once the campaign begins, cityteams continually battle to stay ahead, clashing as frequently as four or five times a week during those hot months of July and August...
Once, the President's lawyers had claimed that John Dean, acting as the mastermind of a cunning scheme to conceal his own guilt, had duped all of those powerful aides above him. In its indictments the grand jury has exploded that story, which always had defied logic, and a good many other stories as well. The result inevitably is to narrow the circle of evidence around the President. To a large extent a presumption of Nixon innocence must rest on the vision of an exceptionally loyal and subservient White House staff successfully deceiving one of the most self-protective...
...throwing in the towel," protested Raymond Kroc, 71, the franchise mastermind who created the McDonald's hamburger empire. "But Fred," he added, "is like a son who grows up and is ready to take over." His reference was to Frederick Turner, 40, who last week was named chief executive of McDonald's, succeeding Kroc, who remains chairman...
Apparently the most powerful member of the junta-and almost certainly the mastermind of the coup-was Brigadier General Dimitrios loannidis, head of the military police...
...country this brilliant, aggressive and fiercely devoted soldier would stand out as a talented strategist. The mastermind behind Egypt's assault on the formidable Bar-Lev Line on the east side of the Suez Canal, Shazli, 52, has long awaited his chance to prove the Arabs' military prowess. Educated at the Egyptian military academy and trained in the Soviet Union, he has been an officer since the first Palestine war of 1948. After the 1967 Six-Day War, he commanded Egypt's "special forces" and later the elite commando unit that forayed across the Suez Canal into...