Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weight of Rommel's suddenly concentrated assault was too heavy. The old hands of Rommel's desert army were too smart for freshmen U.S. troops. As the British had done at Knightsbridge, U.S. tanks charged blindly into German ambushes. German 88-mm. cannon blasted them to bits. Swift-moving German columns surrounded and cut them...
...life preserver was thrown by whip-smart, likable Editor-Owner Freda Kirchwey, 48, who bought the Nation from Maurice Wertheim in 1937 for two reasons: 1) she wanted to maintain it as a voice for leftism; 2) she hoped to make it selfsupporting. Her new plan: to transfer the magazine's ownership from The Nation, Inc. (herself) to Nation Associates, Inc., a new, nonprofit organization. Freda Kirchwey will still be editor and publisher, will draw a salary. Sole advantage of the new plan: she will feel freer to ask for funds when it is understood that...
...Bishop in the Episcopal Church relishes a tussle over principle more than New York's stern, small William Thomas Manning. He has taken on and worsted many a smart tussler, including Judge Ben B. Lindsey, Bertrand Russell...
Confirmed as lieutenant general for war's duration last week was 62-year-old German-born Walter Krueger, who had held that rank on a temporary basis as the tacti cally smart commander of the U.S. Third Army. Meaning of his rank-for-the-duration: he had been assigned to an unspecified command in a war theater...
...blockbuster to land near Congresswoman Luce came from Britain's acrid, American-born Lady Astor (who six months ago bluntly stated her own view of Britain's self-interest as opposed to Russia): "I was horrified . . . appalled . . . shocked. . . . Clare Luce's 'globaloney' is too smart for me. It's like a very stylish and ridiculous hat. . . . Mrs. Luce does not know what the war is about. . . . People who start out to be sensational usually don't last long...