Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Furthermore, the Pacific may also be a source of U.S. power. The U.S., Britain and China together may, if they will, confront Russia with the kind of war and postwar combination which Russians respect. Given the assurance that the anti-Japanese coalition intends to beat Japan to her knees, and then to consolidate that victory, the Russians may well ponder the postwar position of the U.S. in the Pacific...
Germany still has a whopping big army: somewhere between 295 and 325 field divisions and some 11,000,000 men in all services.* Of these, at least 195 divisions confront the Red Army (see p. 21). Just where the rest are, and how good they are, the Allied armies will learn as they move into Europe. According to the best reports available last week...
...make up their minds whether they want to gamble their lives and happiness on some Socialistic scheme of state capital ism, entirely theoretical, or whether as free individuals to drive ahead to achieve a still higher living standard. . . . When we reach the end of the war, this country will confront a problem almost as big as preparing for war. If there were the same desire in government as there is out of it to enable capitalism to meet this test there could be more intelligent planning for the emergency ahead in every county in the country...
...mind and his experience told him that the foes to be beaten in Europe were the Germans, that the way to defeat the Germans was to confront them with overwhelming force. He likes to say: "It makes no difference what part of Europe you kill Germans in." Sicily, for him, is a way station on the road to the battlefields where Germans can be killed in quantities. On the way he will see to it that, as in Sicily, he meets them when he has the superior forces necessary to kill and defeat them...
...confesses that he stumbled on this line of investigation when he walked into a dressing room in a tailor shop one day, found himself confronted by a strange man, fled. It turned out that he had seen himself in a mirror. Thereupon Psychologist Wolff began to confront his guinea pigs with their own pictures and records (mingled with others), with surprising results: only one in ten recognized his own recorded voice, most failed to recognize their own profiles, hands, mirrored hand writing, or speaking rhythm. Half failed to identify their storytelling style. But perversely, every person recognized his own gait...