Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Hall reconverted to its old peacetime uses, but another revolution soon began, known as the "Rotten Cabbage Rebellion," between the students and the food they were being served. Among other incidents, this conflict once found 600 grains of tartar emetic applied to the College's morning coffee (with disastrous results), and a students suspended after he "did publickly in Hall insult the authority of the College by hitting one of the Officers with a potatoe." By 1816 the expanding collection of books and apparatus squeezed out the Commons to the newly-erected University Hall, and the whole second floor...
After all, the conflict in Korea is one of the U.N. against Communist aggressors, no matter how large a part tRe U.S. plays in the actual fighting. Unless and until the General Assembly can be persuaded to sanction the military measures advocated by MacArthur, any attempt on our part to carry them out takes the chance of converting the war into one of the U.S. against North Korea and China ... It is by no means established that Russia would be as cautious in opposing the U.S. as she has been in opposing the U.N. in Korea...
...J.C.S. who had suggested the firing. But "from a military point of view" they had concurred in it. Their principal reason: "That by his public statements and by his official communications to us [MacArthur] had indicated he was not in sympathy with the decision to try to limit the conflict to Korea ... It was necessary to have a commander more responsive to control from Washington...
...Edwin Johnson proposed 1) that the opposing armies in Korea accept the 38th parallel as a dividing line, and 2) that the U.N. call for a truce at 4 a.m. on June 25, the first anniversary of the Korean war. Johnson spoke of the Korean war as "a hopeless conflict of attrition and indecision . . . needless human slaughter." He implied that the U.S. ought to pull out, leaving "Asia for Asiatics...
There was some speculation yesterday that the University had asked the general to postpone his visit, possibly because his appearance might conflict with an already prepared speakers' list. Bunker stated some time ago that MacArthur "placed a high priority on his visit to Harvard...