Word: patton
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...political stage leaves a leadership vacuum that will not be easy to fill. “There is no single American figure to compare [Sharon] with,” wrote James Bennett in a 2004 New York Times Magazine profile. “He is Andrew Jackson, George Patton, Robert Moses.” Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who may very well become Kadima’s new leader, must develop a viable political vision for the party, complete with specifics for the future progression of Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts. Sharon’s hawkish credentials made him uniquely...
...frozen hydrocarbons off the shores of Alaska, the continental coasts and under the Rockies. There's little doubt they too can be extracted economically. If we try, we'll certainly find cheap ways to transform North America's 1 trillion bbl. worth of coal into crude as well. General Patton's Third Army completed its roll across Europe on coal liquefied with German technology...
...tackle an specific, known emergency, a team will wait for orders in the morning-when, by daylight, they can better negotiate potentially lethal downed power lines, for example. A USAR motto, says Pat Aungst, a structural engineer on the team-and a descendant of Woodrow Wilson and George Patton-is, "We shall create no new victims...
...that, he says, "when I first moved, I didn't know I loved acting. I didn't even really know I liked it." His life change was motivated less by a passion for movies than by a frustration with music: he and partner Antwan (Big Boi) Patton were feuding over their future direction, and Benjamin felt enormous pressure to make hits. (The band has not announced its retirement nor any plans for a new album.) Like others before him, he took advantage of his celebrity to try something new. "I was already with the William Morris Agency for booking tours...
...guys ran things--as producers, directors, bosses--and the highest-paid females were so much screen sirloin. The very job descriptions were sexist: cameraman but script girl. And ruling the set, in his safari jacket and jodhpurs, was the director--an amalgam of Da Vinci and De Sade, Patton and Hemingway. A man's man. No girls needed apply...