Word: civilianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reds had not abandoned hope of starving Quemoy out. they presumably would not have given the Nationalists an opportunity to cram supplies into the island unopposed. (By week's end Nationalist convoys had landed an estimated 28.000 tons of supplies on Quemoy-enough to meet minimum military and civilian requirements for nearly three months...
...Piasecki craft can safely fly and hover under bridges or between buildings because its two rotors, horizontally placed front and back inside the fuselage, are completely shielded. The enclosed rotors create air columns, which are the force that actually moves the helicopter. Piasecki plans to produce a 150-m.p.h. civilian model seating four passengers...
...Korea, offered the option, 14,000 Chinese prisoners of war (out of 20,000) refused to return to their homes and families in Red China, chose Formosa instead. ¶When the Nationalists evacuated the Tachen Islands off the coast of Chekiang province in 1955, the islands' civilian populace was given the choice of evacuation to Formosa or acceptance of Communist rule. Of the islands' 18,500 inhabitants, exactly 19 chose to remain and await the Communist administration...
World War II had an enormous impact on the University, of course. It drained off most of the civilian students and forced the suspension or modification of their normal undergraduate activities. The resumption of customary College life after the War seems, then, the logical jumping-off point for this article--especially since the history of Harvard theatre up to the War has been retold many times, while its course from the War to the present has not yet been chronicled...
...only student theatrical organization that remained relatively unaffected by the War was Idler, the Radcliffe dramatic club, formed in 1907. Such civilian students as were here during the War used Idler as an outlet for their endeavors. Even after the War, Idler cast most of its male parts with Harvardians...