Word: actions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...However, even of greater significance is the unprecedented action on the part of a Secretary of Defense in so drastically and arbitrarily changing and restricting the operational plans of an armed service without consultation with that service. The consequences of such a procedure are far-reaching and can be tragic...
Said Sullivan: "Your action ... so far as I know, represents the first attempt ever made in this country to prevent the development of a powerful weapon. The conviction that this will result in a renewed effort to abolish the Marine Corps, and to transfer all naval and Marine aviation elsewhere, adds to my anxiety...
People who have seen him in action call him the greatest one-man show this side of Winston Churchill. He has Churchill's sense of being on intimate terms with history. He also has his sense of danger and drama. He wraps himself in thundering generalities; he sometimes sounds, annoyingly, as though he had just received a special briefing from heavenly quarters. But few people come away without the conviction that he is a great...
...Manhattan in 1946, he learned to his surprise and pain that U.S. dress designers considered Paris washed up as the fashion center of the world. Back home he looked up a then-obscure friend named Christian Dior, sketched a plan of action and cried, "There is no other way. You must be Joan of Arc!" Bérard, his friends believe, was the real begetter of the "New Look...
...Case of the Cautious Coquette, Erie Stanley Gardner's 61st crime novel, is a good example of the stream-of-action technique, the ingenious but credible situations and the direct, undecorated prose that have made him the best-selling author alive. In 25? Pocket Book editions alone, 28 of his books have sold more than 30 million copies in less than nine years. Fourteen Gardner titles have gone over the million mark; The Case of the Lucky Legs alone has hit the incredible figure, for a detective story, of 2,000,000. In all editions, hard and paper cover...