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Word: strategist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jesus Factor." In the next attack, and in later ones, no planning will ever carry through with mathematical exactitude. There will always be unforeseen reactions from the enemy, freaks of weather, unaccountable failures of command, sudden collapses of men in the stress of battle. Said a Navy strategist in Pearl Harbor : "We can plan up to a point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE PACIFIC: The Way to Tokyo | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...Money. Casimir John Myslinski is a remarkable footballer, a vicious tackier, shrewd defense strategist and certain to be the center on more than one All-America. He is even more remarkable as a man. Like another poor boy who made a good record at West Point, John Joseph Pershing, he overcame tremendous handicaps to get there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Steelworker's Boy | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

Died. J. William Ditter, 55, Republican National Congressional Committee Chairman since 1939, able party strategist. Pennsylvania Representative (the 17th District) since 1933; in the crash of a naval plane; near Columbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 29, 1943 | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...Army's strength, its future victories, even Stalin's political demands. Yet, to get to the answers, one must cut through many layers of claims and counterclaims, of secrecy and propaganda. Hitler himself hinders clear answers, for he is an opportunist, a gambler, an intuitive strategist who does not plan far ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: HITLER: Here I shall remain | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

Engaged. British Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur William Tedder, 53, the invasion's softspoken, bird-faced bombing strategist; and Mrs. Marie Black, organizer of R.A.F.-men's Malcolm Clubs in Algiers and Tunisia; in Algiers. His first wife died in an air crash near Cairo last January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 27, 1943 | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

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