Word: tactician
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...tested model, Stephens designed a sleek, hard-charging champion that beat beautifully to windward, cut cleanly through the sea. Britain's Boyd built a barrel-chested challenger that bobbed too much in rough weather, slid off badly to windward. White-haired Cornelius ("Corny") Shields, Columbia's tactician during last summer's trials, put his racing-wise finger on Sceptre's big shortcoming: "She's too full forward and too fine...
...find it inconceivable, bordering on pigheadedness, that ex-Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, when making decisions affecting the national security of the U.S., "never had much to do with" Tactician and Strategist Lieut. General James Gavin...
Separate'Tables. In carrying out his instructions,'Lodge does an effective job of arguing the U.S. case,'both in open debate and in the incessant lobbying that goes on at the U.N. between debates. He proved his mettle as a tactician early in his U.N. career when he had to defend the unpopular U.S. proposal for a "two-sided" (no neutrals) Korean peace conference instead of the "roundtable" (neutrals present) conference urged by Britain, backed by the Soviet bloc. A round-table conference, said Lodge, would resemble an old-fashioned Mother Hubbard dress, "covering everything and touching...
Moss is quiet and self-contained. He drives with expressionless calm, seated well back from the wheel. Moss seldom smokes, does not drink, keeps himself fit with long hours in a gym. A superb tactician, Moss often tags along in a preceding driver's slipstream, taking advantage of the reduced wind resistance. To Moss, driving is a "kind of poetry in motion-a feeling of rhythm, of perfect balance...
...Conditioned Reflex." At 32, Schaus is a boyish, genial giant (6 ft. 5 in., 220 lbs.) who still can mix it up with his team in practice, still share his team's private jokes. But he is also a solid tactician who builds his offense around a whirling fast break led by Forward Bob Smith, insists on a dogged, man-to-man defense...