Word: catchingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pentagon was quick to catch the note in the President's press conference last week which indicated that Ike was less enthusiastic about the need for prompt reorganization of the Defense establishment than he had sounded in his State of the Union message (TIME, Jan. 20). "My own convictions are rather fixed," Ike told the newsmen mildly. (General Eisenhower came back from World War II convinced that U.S. defense needed "central planning-the essence of unity in the armed forces.") But when a reporter asked last week whether he was still in that fight, Ike seemed to back away...
...alarmist testimony might not be doing U.S. defenses more harm than good. It is probably true, said the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, capable, low-pressure General Nathan Farragut Twining, that the U.S. is behind Russia in long-range missiles and must "get on the move" to catch up. But "It is important that we realize, at home and abroad, that we are not-today-in my judgment, in a position of inferior military strength vis-á-vis the Soviet Union . . . Such a misapprehension could lead to fatal compromises in connection with disarmament negotiations and could lead...
...catch its hackle-raising horrors, Twentieth Century searched around Europe last spring, out of a ten-mile tangle of celluloid salvaged 2,400 evocative feet, garnished it with an equally evocative script by Emmet John Hughes, author of Report from Spain (and now chief of TIME-LIFE'S foreign correspondents). There were some coruscant scenes: crying, cursing Madrileños "running faster, faster along the very edge of the abyss," truncheon-wielding cops beating them back; women and children being evacuated under heavy air bombardment, their life's possessions tied in burlap on their backs, or black coffins...
...icehouse. Chief Norman staked out five men. At 10:30 p.m. a man slid out of the shadows, looked cautiously up and down, then snaked an arm under the icehouse loading dock. Out jumped the cops. "Who-me?" cried the flustered man. "Why, I'm just waiting to catch a freight out of town...
...decisions are made on the basis of competence rather than price." Pace is convinced that General Dynamics has both the competence and the staff to help push back the frontiers of modern technology. Says he: "We may be behind the Russians for the moment, but we'll catch up-and go away beyond...