Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foster is the latest of three brothers to play number one and captain the Crimson team. Sidelined by a broken leg for most of last season, Foster is nevertheless a capable and experienced player who stands near the top of intercollegiate squash ranks. Barnaby describes him as "a master strategist-a very accomplished player capable of taking on any opponent with at least an even chance of winning...
...ambassador to the U.S. "The Chinese Communist Party, partly by design and partly by extraordinary circumstances, has possessed a formidable army of its own almost from the very early years of its founding. This unique feature has been the most important source of its strength, which Stalin, the masterful strategist of world Communism, has been able to nurture, support, and in the course of 25 years develop into a most powerful instrumentality for subjugating China and thereby dominating the whole Asiatic continent...
...outstanding defensive strategist, Hickman has been recognized as a shrewd offensive technician as well since replacing Howie Odell at Yale. Last winter, he worked out the details of his split-T formation offense, which was introduced at fall practice and used successfully up until last Saturday. The split-T involves a half back, stationed well outside the end, who becomes a man-in-motion threading his way through the backfield on practically every play. This system is well-suited to tricky reverses and laterals, for the wingback can either take a hand off from one of the other backs, fake...
Within minutes after the kickoff, it became plain to the 56,748 rabid fans in Notre Dame Stadium that Frank Leahy had finally spoken a mouthful. Purdue Coach Stu Holcomb, onetime assistant to Army's master strategist Red Blaik, had drilled his Boilermakers to peak precision. Behind their own hard-charging line, Purdue's backs ripped a dazed Notre Dame forward wall to shreds. At halftime Purdue...
...made no splash in 15 months in office, is a mild-looking and prosperous Omaha lawyer, a good Democrat, a prominent Roman Catholic layman (a Papal Chamberlain with Cape and Sword), and a dedicated and fervent antiCommunist. One of the things he is not is a military strategist (he admitted, when he became Secretary, that his knowledge of naval affairs was confined to operating a rowboat). As Navy Secretary, he had apparently got to thinking of the danger of being Pearl...