While Eisenhower and Marshall both knew Patton to be a superb and aggressive corps-level combat commander, Bradley possessed two of the traits Patton conspicuously lacked that a theater-level strategic command required: a calm, reasoned demeanor and a meticulously consistent nature.
Mr. Bloomberg also cited gerrymandering and an aggressive press corps as causes of partisanship, and said it was incumbent upon voters to demand that their legislators focus on critical issues rather than internecine squabbles.
Life magazine told of his dispatching planes to circle enemy positions while playing funeral music, then broadcasting a child's voice crying in Vietnamese, "Daddy, Daddy, please come home!" But Mr. Zorthian became best known as ringmaster of the daily news briefings, which pitted a newly aggressive press corps against a long tradition of secrecy and optimism in official discussion of battles.
Although Hancock would have an excellent future reputation as an aggressive division and corps commander, the unexpected change of command sapped the momentum of the Federal advance.
Judicial conduct is now not only reviewed and confronted by a vast appellate regime and an aggressive press (and blogger) corps, but also by a discipline process in place in every jurisdiction, tasked with applying tediously codified rules of judicial conduct and exacting opinions to assess the conduct of judges.
The Obama administration has had a somewhat rocky relationship with the White House press corps, and his aggressive pursuit of leakers has created controversy in journalistic circles.
The news media in this state can be so toothless (unlike, say, the much more aggressive New York or Washington, D.C. press corps) that in a silly attempt to seem "fair and balanced," they actually tend to report things like, "Poizner accuses Whitman of ducking debates and the news media," as if to suggest there is some controversy about this matter.
As the river levels rose swiftly and the corps continued a series of aggressive water releases, observed increases in the level of the Cumberland "far outpaced" the forecasts, the report said.
Instead he provided a corps de ballet of bare-chested, aggressive, sexually alluring male swans, and a repressed, sensitive-soul prince who falls in love with their leader.
He emerges from the war as one of the great leaders of the corps, a man known for his aggressive style and fearlessness on the battlefield but also one who exhibited great compassion toward and understanding of his men, who admired him extravagantly.
