Word: overlies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spit & Polish. The British mission to Washington has never (in peacetime) been as big and busy as it is today, although it has always been regarded as important. It has been presided over by a varied and colorful line of ministers and ambassadors: ¶Stratford Canning (1820-23), who reported...
His knack for administration was uncanny: he showed an instantaneous grasp of personnel problems, gave subordinates snappy decisions which constantly left them with an awed "why-didn't-I-think-of-that?" feeling. He handled his bosses with equal ease. The day he learned that peppery Lord Beaverbrook was...
Fancy Knots. When the shooting war was over, Franks ("the greatest civilian discovery of the war") could have been head of Britain's Steel Board or had his pick of many glittering big business jobs. He turned them all down to go back to Oxford as provost of his...
At that historic meeting, the boyish-looking professor did more than just a good job; his sparkling clarity of speech, his remorseless logic, his deft and delicate handling of clashing national views made him the conference star. He presided over his own delegation briskly and competently, telling them: "Gentlemen, we...
Shortly after 9 a.m., his quiet "Good morning, where is the mail?" starts his private office staff fluttering. The first half-hour goes to the mail, the second to reviewing the pile of cables decoded during the night. His first conference is with Minister Sir Frederick Hoyer Millar, a veteran...