Word: tactician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Master Tactician Taft was annoyed, he controlled himself. Said he: "My own feeling is that tax reduction is more important than a reduction in the debt.. . ." Nevertheless, he agreed to go along for a $1 billion debt reduction...
...Shampoo. He. was also a master tactician. He discarded the hit-&-run tactics of earlier carrier raids, and developed the technique of wearing down the enemy's defenses, winning control of the air, and then slugging. Flyers called his method of blasting enemy airfields the "Mitscher shampoo." In their flexibility, his battle plans were a bewilderment to the Japs...
...with a host of capable reserves and a deceptive attack. It is perhaps as versatile an offense as the Crimson will sec all year, with equal balance on the ground and in the air. Coach Harvey Harman, former director or Penn's football fortunes, is regarded as a shrewed tactician, and undoubtedly has saved a few of his brainchildren for his meeting with the Harlow squad...
Practical Democrats knew that personal Presidential purges did not usually pay off. In his 1938 purge campaign even Master Tactician Franklin Roosevelt had been able to unseat only one of the five obstreperous Democratic Congressmen he had set out to get. It is axiomatic that local voters do not like to have outsiders, even Presidents, coming around to tell them how to vote...
There was another difference. F.D.R., a great political tactician, had the knack of making his speeches stick to a single issue, as sharp as a bayonet. He deployed his strength so that he could usually choose his own enemies. Usually they turned-up in the guise of black reactionaries or members of the lunatic fringe, whom he could belabor with abandon...