Word: masterminding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anyone say that this means he is not a candidate, and Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio, Harriman's secretary of state and political mastermind, gently but firmly weaves that word "active" back into the sentence...
...singed strongman ordered 56 navy and air force officers tried by secret court martial. The sentences revealed last week were mild, considering that the prescribed penalty for rebellion by members of the armed forces is death. Seven revolt leaders, including Rear Admiral Samuel Toranzo Calderón, the alleged mastermind, were sentenced to life imprisonment, 30 others drew terms of from one to three years and the remaining 19 went free...
...thing that all of NBC's musical spectaculars have in common is tiny (5 ft. 6 in.) Max Liebman. A showman of 25 years' experience, Liebman has been so successful as producer, director and general mastermind of the specs that last week NBC signed him to a new five-year contract...
...France (TIME, Nov. 1). The Paris accords came first, and at once the Socialists weighed in with the made-in-Moscow argument that they have chosen to regard as their own: ratification of rearmament means the end of all hope of German reunification. Ex-Communist Herbert Wehner, 48, mastermind of the Socialist left wing (TIME, Feb. 28), talked up a Geneva-style conference at which the West could trade German rearmament for German reunification-assuming that the Russians might be so minded. He made much ado about "automatic consequences," suggesting casuistically that a vote in the West German Bundestag...
...Stole $2,500,000 and Got Away with It. That is more or less what happened five years ago in Boston when a well-organized band of crooks relieved Brinks, Inc. of its clients' assets. Jerry Florea (Tony Curtis), a born organizer, rises from a Boston gutter to mastermind the multimillion-dollar robbery. Policeman Ed Gallagher (George Nader), Jerry's longtime friendly enemy, cannot break his alibi. Just as Jerry is about to split the take, it turns out that the story idea was only half right for Hollywood. Jaws drop, eyes pop, and guys go for gats...