Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brilliant (Phi Beta Kappa), Dartmouth-trained Bill Remington was publicly and legally branded a liar for saying that he had never been a Communist. He was convicted for perjury, but even graver was the implication that he had passed on to fellow Communists secret information to which he had access when he was working for the WPB. Remington was whisked off to jail for the night. Next day, pale but calm, he stood before Judge Noonan and received the maximum sentence for perjury: five years in jail and a $2,000 fine...
...York Times's James ("Scotty") Reston is a sharp, Pulitzer-Prizewinning correspondent who specializes in finding out what the State Department is thinking, rather than what it is saying out loud. Armed with integrity and prestige, he has ready access to most of the department's top brass, plenty of chances for "guidance" talks when he wants them...
Communism is predicated on the emphatic rejection of God . . . Communist man ... is pathetically dehumanized . . . severed from his divine origin and divine destiny; denied the spiritual principle which gives his reason access to the truth, which endows his conscience and will with the craving for the good, which empowers his heart to love; imprisoned hopelessly in this world of strife and frustration, here to center all his hopes and here to erect his paradise . . . He is but a passing shadow of no duration, a fragment of no intrinsic or ultimate worth...
...Rearmament would stretch Japan's present piano-wire economy to the breaking point. Japan must import most of its industrial raw materials, even depends on outside sources for 20% of its food. Southeast Asia can supply part of Japan's new material needs, but the loss of access to North China's coal and iron has dimmed Japan's industrial prospect...
...Eighth Army seemed to have no fear that its supply line to Pusanand its possible line of retreatmight be cut off, especially since U.N. forces in the central mountains were bravely and skillfully holding the Reds back from mountain passes that meant access to the plains north of Pusan. Below Wonju, the U.S. and Division, aided by French and Dutch battalions, held on. In the first counterattack since the fall of Seoul, they fought back briefly into the town, withdrew under small-arms fire...