Word: winningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chief of Staff, rubber-stamped Marshall's choices of top men for the top jobs-Eisenhower, Bradley, Clark, Hodges, Patton. He resolutely supported Marshall's argument, over Douglas MacArthur's, that the Allies had to win the European war first before going all-out in the Pacific-a turn of events that galled the spectacular MacArthur, who was Chief of Staff when Marshall was a lieutenant colonel. When F.D.R. succumbed to the prolonged arguments of Winston Churchill, who insisted on attacking the "soft underbelly of Europe," it was Marshall who got him to change his mind...
...West with an 8-3 majority at the least-one more than the 7-4 vote needed to throw deadlocked issues such as Suez and Hungary into the General Assembly. (But the U.S. argues that by 1961 Russia-fearing Finland and the neutralist United Arab Republic will probably win seats, might cut the reliable majority to 6-5.) ¶Latin America has never been a monolithic bloc, even if the Russians do call it the U.S.'s "mechanical majority." As Mexican Delegate Luis Padilla Nervo puts it, "the Latin Americans do not follow instructions from anybody except their...
Golden Fleecing (by Lorenzo Semple Jr.) bears one of those pun-propelled titles that proclaim a farcical text. And farcical Golden Fleecing is, without being farcical enough. Concerned with three U.S. Navy men in Venice who plot to win fortunes at roulette by using their ship's "top-secret" mechanical computer, it involves signals between harbor and hotel suite, their own admiral in the suite below, the admiral's inevitably winsome daughter, signalmen who pass out, couples who dive into canals, Venetian glass, Venetian gangsters, and phones that stop ringing only when doorbells start...
...goal removed the disappointment of previous exasperating misses by Crimson attackers and ruined the Big Green's hopes for an upset Ivy League win. The Indian's offense lived up to all expectations by jumping to a quick lead at 5:13 of the first period...
...Bagnoli's only mistake of the game, and it left the Crimson behind by a goal early in the game. Bagnoli and the Crimson backs made the difference between an important win and a bitter defeat for the varsity's defending League champions...