Word: battlefield
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...would be a scandal: Goodman might well be expelled from college, in any case he would be ostracized by many of his fellow-students. It is just accident that Americans live in the only major country of the world which has not, in the last fifty years, been a battlefield; but we think we can "beat" the war game, or "fix" it--like a basketball game, or a West Point examination--without taking any risks or really exerting ourselves...
...would be a scandal: Goodman might well be expelled from college, in any case he would be ostracized by many of his fellow-students. It is just accident that Americans live in the only major country of the world which has not, in the last fifty years, been a battlefield; but we think we can "beat" the war game, or "fix" it--like a basketball game, or a West Point examination--without taking any risks or really exerting ourselves...
...purpose fighters, and got to work on guided missiles. For six years, behind closely guarded walls at the Glenn L. Martin plant near Baltimore, scientists and technicians worked to solve the mysteries of an accurate ground-to- ground guided missile which could be used tactically on the battlefield. Last week, in the Martin Matador, the Air Force thought it had its first tentative answer...
...Korean war] is the utter uselessness of the enormous sacrifice." The original "high moral purpose," he said, had "yielded to the timidity and fear of our leaders" because they had hesitated to answer the attack of the Chinese Communists effectively. "Appeasement thereafter became the policy of war on the battlefield...
...machines at the Pentagon, one day last week, were hammering out the Korean casualty list. Next to the regular entry, "K.I.A." (killed in action), the machines printed: None. For the first time in 53 weeks, 24 hours had passed in Korea without a single U.S. soldier dying on the battlefield...