Word: clanks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them to work out their detailed confusions. His job is to lead the NATO army, navy and air force, just beginning to emerge from the phantomlike phase of historical conferences and splendid promises into something actual-measured in fleets, squadrons and divisions, noisy with the clank of weapons and marching feet (see box). But it is an army existing only on paper until the governments give it weapons...
...shift occurred last week without the faintest clank in the clockwork. Handsome, curly-haired Clark Clifford would bow out as special counsel to the President. And 40-year-old Charles Murphy, a poker-faced North Carolinian, would bow in. The White House was generally saddened at Clifford's departure. "It's a terrible loss," said a Truman intimate. "Charlie Murphy is a hard plugger but he lacks Clifford's flair and imagination. The rest of us will just have to try and supply Charlie with what he lacks." But otherwise the mechanism of Harry Truman...