Word: channelizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard method, is being used in Britain to teach English to newly arrived Hungarian miners. It was also used on Channel 2 for teaching French and Spanish...
This kind of fear of war, if it guided every American action in places remote from vital Russian interests, would paralyze decision and leave no alternative but to surrender every time Bulganin blusteringly threatened trouble in the Middle East or vowed to send guided missiles over the English channel. Such a fear did not paralyze U.S. policy in the Middle East, as Eisenhower's reply to Bulganin showed. It is only in the area now Russian, where the Communists might be expected to fight for what they could not risk losing, that the assessment became subtle and difficult...
Forecast on DDay. The biggest moment for military weathermen was critical Dday, when General Eisenhower's forces crossed the Channel to land on the Normandy coast. Everything depended on the weather, which could have broken up the invasion fleet as it had the Spanish Armada, sailing in the opposite direction, 356 years before. As June 1944 approached, the weather over the Channel remained impossibly bad. Each service demanded several different kinds of weather. The airborne infantry wanted cloud-cover to shelter it from enemy fighters; the bombers wanted clear skies. Ground forces wanted cloud-cover and fairly dry soil...
...June 4 or 5 was chosen tentatively, but on June 3 the weathermen said no; the weather would not be good enough. On June 4 General Eisenhower postponed the invasion. Late that night he got better news from the weathermen. A storm, they said, would pass over the Channel on June 5, leaving fairly good conditions on Tuesday. June...
Eisenhower followed the weathermen's advice and made his decision for a June 6 landing. June 5 was stormy, but on June 6 weather conditions were reasonably good. The invasion forces crossed the Channel, finding the Germans unprepared. Their airplanes were grounded; their naval vessels absent. Deceived by the storm which had just passed, they thought Eisenhower would wait at least another...