Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...automatic blossoming of revolution assured by "science," and with the deeds of a ruthless party similarly justified, Stalin can turn to the concrete issue: world strategy. The details of his ideas are necessarily secret. But, Historicus shows convincingly, the central plan is use of the Soviet Union as a base for revolution in every country in the world...
...Mark's gives the kind of education and discipline that gets its graduates into the best colleges and the best clubs. Though the school's 177 boys now come from 21 states and nearly 20% are now attending on scholarships, Barber hopes to broaden the base even more. Every year, from now on, he will give a five-year scholarship to one boy from a different part of the U.S. "Private schools," says Barber, "justify themselves if, through their scholarships, they make it possible for all types of Americans to attend." Next year's type...
Appreciated but less popular were John Cobb's* scrutiny of U.S.A.A.F. men & manners in wartime England, The Gesture (also a first novel), James Gould Cozzens' Guard of Honor, an admirable study of base life at a U.S. flying field, and Theodor Plievier's gruesome Stalingrad, a broad-scale battle picture whose forceful "documentary" slant made it more fact than fiction...
...equipment is one pillow (craftily placed), one board (stuck on plenty tight), one uniform (sweatproof), and guts (to face 200 kids a day). The pay is a base scale of $1.00 an hour. The hours are short. The job, for eight Harvard men, is that of impersonating Santa Claus...
Commander-in-Chief Liu Shih flew down to the grey-walled rail town of Pengpu on the Huai's south bank, to set up a new operational base. Deputy Commander Tu Yu-ming led the march overland with three "army groups" (about 110,000 combat troops), commanded by Generals Li Mi, Chiu Ching-chuan and Sun Yuan-liang. The leader of a fourth army group, General Huang Po-tao, was left a suicide on the field where his 90,000 men had been encircled and cut to pieces. Behind the withdrawing Nationalists, over Suchow's blasted ammunition dumps...