Word: masterminding
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...many gasps and a few shudders when Brownell became Attorney General. He was a professional politician entering a Justice Department already reeking and rocking from too many professional politicians. Brownell had been the strategist for the presidential campaigns of Tom Dewey and Dwight Eisenhower; he was the hotel-suite mastermind who liked to note that he had never spent so much as a night on a campaign train. Politician Brownell was treated like one of the boys when he came up for confirmation by the politicians of the U.S. Senate. They went through the motions of asking him questions...
Apparently one of the courtroom magicians was a former counsel for the HYRC's weekly publication, and the other mastermind was the new counsel. The former gentleman was expressing a reluctance to turn over the organization's financial report without his getting a remuneration in the amount of $503.09. $3.09 was for stamps and the remainder for services rendered...
...plans to have his walking wounded "warm-up," to impress the Eli mastermind that all is not well with the feared Crimson juggernaut. In reality, all is not well, for the team has been whittled down by injury. French Anderson and Mike Robertson, counted on for two places in the 600 are injured, as is Dave Gately, the leading broad jumper. Both pole vaulters, Barrett Churchill and Barnes Keller are ailing, but both will complete. Dick will not run in the two-mile relay, and hurdler Joel Cohen is still hampered by his bad foot...
...thriller specialist, though still no match for Simenon or Erie Stanley Gardner, Marquand has suffered a marked loss of innocence since prewar days. In Mr. Moto's Three Aces the publishers have revived some old Moto yarns in which the mastermind outwits Chinese bandits, Russian gunmen, murderous extremists from his own country, and invariably becomes involved with a well-intentioned but hopelessly naive young American who blunders through the labyrinth of Asiatic intrigue. But Stopover: Tokyo is a brand-new Moto novel, and the change is significant: no longer need Mr. Moto patiently explain to the young American what...
...added that a "good coach must be a mastermind of football and be able not only to outguess and outsmart his opponents, but above all, he must qualify as the very best type of instructor, able to impart his knowledge of all phases of the game to the eager beavers who make up his squad...