Crossword-Solution: MCNAMARA
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| "The Fog of War" subject | 1 answer |
| '60s Defense secretary | 1 answer |
| 1960s defense secretary | 1 answer |
| J.F.K.'s Defense Sec. | 1 answer |
| Noted name in Washington. | 1 answer |
| Secretary of Defense, 1961-68 | 1 answer |
| Vietnam-era defense secretary | 1 answer |
| Secretary of Defense. | 3 answers |
| Cabinet member | 25 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MCNAMARA (5)
Every man was there, Singleton below by the captain’s body, the crew, silent and horror-struck, grouped on the steps: Clarke, McNamara, Burns, Oleson, and Adams.
The Ella was without an accredited officer, and, for lack of orders to the contrary, the helmsman—McNamara now—was holding her to her course.
Two revolvers from Oleson and McNamara and one nicked razor from Adams completed the list of weapons we found.
One by one, I looked in their faces—at Burns, youngest member of the crew, a blue-eyed, sandy-haired Scot; at Clarke and Adams and Charlie Jones, old in the service of the Turner line; at McNamara, a shrewd little Irishman; at Oleson the Swede.
Adams and McNamara stood off from the others, their faces not unfriendly, but clearly differing from the decision.
Quotes with MCNAMARA (3)
Why did McNamara have such good figures? Why did McNamara have such good staff work and Ball such poor staff work? The next day Ball would angrily dispatch his staff to come up with the figures, to find out how McNamara had gotten them, and the staff would burrow away and occasionally find that one of the reasons that Ball did not have comparable figures was that they did not always exist. McNamara had invented them, he dissembled even within the bureaucracy, though, of cours…
A wish becomes a greatest desire at the very moment when a person's belief in the seemingly impossible is stronger than any doubt.-Kevin McNamara
In the absence of expert [senior military] advice, we have seen each successive administration fail in the business of strategy - yielding a United States twice as rich as the Soviet Union but much less strong. Only the manner of the failure has changed. In the 1960s, under Robert S. McNamara, we witnessed the wholesale substitution of civilian mathematical analysis for military expertise. The new breed of the "systems analysts" introduced new standards of intellectual discip…
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Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, NY Sun, NYT, WSJ.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1961–2019).