Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alexander P. de Seversky, planemaker and armchair strategist (Victory through Airpower), was elected mayor of Asharoken Village, N.Y. He got 23 of the 40 votes cast. Village trustee: Cartoonist Rube Goldberg...
Those of us who work for a living are somewhat loth to believe that labor is responsible for all our nation's ills. . . . John L. might possibly be more than a "master strategist" possibly (with your implications a that his "master maneuvers are aimed straight at our liberties). He might even-oh, sacrilege-prove to be half-right...
Mapping out a plan of attack on next fall's housing front is turning Dr. Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, into a master strategist. When an undergraduate, he had an untidy roommate who owned fourteen suits and left them in fourteen heaps. Therefore, Dr. Perkins looks forward with sympathetic agony to the Spartan task of cramming 440 students into a house built...
...What are we doing here so early?" continued the strategist with the saw in his hand. "Why we're commencing Commencement. We're off to a quick start in case we get delayed for a while on account of rain. It always rains before, but never on Commencement Day." With renewed energy he picked up his hammer and nailed in a board muttering, "This...
...suggestion was not the bright idea of an armchair strategist. Five carefully chosen men, working twelve to 18 hours a day for eight weeks, had finally brought it forth. When it was done, the State Department's Committee on Atomic Energy passed it along to Congress, without endorsement but with unanimous agreement that it made the most sense of any proposal yet. Not even Major General Leslie R. Groves, unreconstructed defender of military-security-before-all-else, objected to the letter of transmittal in which Under Secretary Dean Acheson's committee declared...