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  • n  a supporter who accepts something as true

  • Its actual duties: to keep the chair just vacated by Jerome Frank warm for Brain-truster Ben Cohen, who is now in England assisting with Lend-Lease Act administration.
  • The crusading muckraker, the flamboyant expatriate, the dedicated brain-trusterall these convenient tags are gone.
  • As a New Deal brain-truster, he was one of the authors of the ill-famed Morgenthau Plan, which would have reduced Germany to an agrarian country.
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  • Joe Torre in Boston Globe (registration)
    This was the generation of players that was involved, and, fairly or unfairly, this is the generation of players that will have to find a solution,Torre says. "You know, I'm a truster by nature. To me, if you say to me, 'Trust me,'...

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