Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which it had done nothing to prepare), wrote his own introduction to it. He distributed only a limited edition (35 copies) to newsmen and let them hunt for the details of the wicked international oil cartel they had heard so much about. But for all of Sparkman's buildup, the document turned out to be little but ancient history, nearly all of it available in college economics books. Items...
...stretchout of the original three-year defense program would amount to a cut of between a quarter and a third in original goals. Many of the armaments now scheduled would still be made, but for export to overseas customers rather than for Britain's own defense buildup. "Armaments," he explained, "are, in these uneasy days, bestsellers...
...Buildup. Even the most competent newspaper editor, says Davis, is often so convinced of the need to be objective that when he spots a "downright misstatment of facts" in a speech, he never follows it with a bracketed insert to the effect that "This simply is not so." If the Honorable John P. Hoozis is an important person, "you [may still] see him quoted at length in newspapers on almost any subject, with no indication that he knew nothing at all about it ... To do that would be editorializing, interpreting the news, failing in objectivity...
Having appraised his command and ticked off what changes he wanted made, Clark turned to the Korean dilemma. His 8:30 a.m. briefers gave him the figures on the enemy buildup-some 1,800 planes, 1,000,000 men, vast piles of war material. The general could see that the enemy, by his holding attack at the truce table, had greatly improved his position since a year ago. How had this come about...
...hotting-up along the battlefront began casually enough. Concerned by a Communist buildup in forward areas, including much artillery, the Eighth Army stepped up its patrolling and redoubled its efforts to capture enemy prisoners for interrogation. In the west near Chorwon, elements of the U.S. 45th Division attacked and seized a T-shaped hill mass from where they could almost look down the enemy throats...