Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the first U.S. battalions reached Korea, the U.S. commanders had to decide whether to commit them piecemeal, or to build up in greater safety behind the Kum River and wait for the enemy to come south. MacArthur and Dean chose the former. It remained to be seen whether the time gained was worth the cost in casualties and heartbreak to the U.S. troops. Last week they took a severe beating. As this week began, the U.S. troops, with tanks and better artillery reaching them at last, showed signs of standing their ground...
...Airlines to revive commercial aviation in Italy. T.W.A. and Italy each took a 40% interest in the new company, sold the remaining 20% to three private Italian concerns. As president of L.A.I, they picked personable Prince Pacelli, now 43, a popular, socialite Rome lawyer. As his American deputy they chose auburn-haired Richard Mazzarini, a Rome-born U.S. citizen who had worked for a U.S. airline before serving...
Even at economy size, the U.S. armed forces were presumably capable of handling the Korean situation, though it would take time and lives. But what if the Kremlin's masterminds chose to set other small fires around Communism's vast periphery? Without involving themselves in declared war, they could blockade Berlin or Vienna, send Kurds into Turkey or Iran, launch Chinese Communist armies into Indo-China or Burma...
Hedging its political bets, the A.M.A.'s high command chose as vice president General Practitioner Rufus Benjamin Robins. A Democratic National Committeeman from Arkansas, Dr. Robins also opposes the Truman-Ewing health plan...
After tracing the history and importance of religious toleration in the U.S. Conant stated.... "public institutions, including tax-supported schools, shall be secular... Long ago this University chose the secular path." But, Conant pointed out, "To equate secular with Godless and the Godless with immoral... is surely a fallacious line of argumentation...