Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world knew about. Behind that power was Ike Eisenhower, whom the enemy and the world had gradually come to know. Beside him, part of a sensitive, interlocking mechanism of responsibility, were such top commanders in the theater as British General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, chief planner and strategist; Admiral Sir Andrew Brown Cunningham, boss of the Mediterranean fleet; Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, strategist of the air. They made the specific plans, which had to be shared with President Roosevelt, with Prime Minister Churchill, with General Marshall and the Anglo-U.S. staffs in Washington...
...Countess (the title is authentic) Marianna von Moltke, 46, greying, talkative poesy-minded wife of a professor of Wayne (Detroit's city-owned) University. (The professor is said to be a grandson of Bismarck's famed Prussian strategist. Field Marshal Count von Moltke.) With two sons in Germany, the Countess, Detroiters complain, has tried to interest college students in her pro-Nazi doctrines...
...colleagues have sopped up this contempt. Said one of his officers, when asked what errors the Germans made at Stalingrad: "The greatest error was in having Hitler for a strategist...
Never a slugger, court strategist Dick Sears pit-patted his way to seven U.S. championships (a record since equaled by Larned and Tilden but never broken). He also won the national doubles six times (five of them with James Dwight). At Wimbledon he played only once, was soundly beaten in an early round. Injuries he suffered in a collision with a doubles partner ended Dick Sears's lawn tennis career at his prime (25). Thereupon he took up its less strenuous ancestor, court tennis, and became the first U.S. champion at that. Despite a scarcity of opponents, Dick Sears...
...Long? How Strong? The Chinese, sensing the potential effectiveness of this insidious campaign, urged loudly last week that the Allies act quickly against Japan. In Chungking the official newspaper Ta Kung Pao recalled that the great Chinese strategist, Sun Tzu, advocated the crushing of the weakest adversary first. The paper asked: "How strong will Japan become in nine months, in one and a half years, or in two and a half years during which the United Nations are concentrating against Hitler...