Word: containment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warned the Chinese of what might happen to their homeland if U.N. abandoned "the tolerant effort to contain the war" to South Korea-a warning that was also another meaningful hint directed...
...publication, as yet unnamed, will use mostly fiction articles. Being privately financed, it will contain no advertisements. Contributors need not be undergraduates, Phillips said...
Those who think Congress is almost finished with the military manpower problem are mistaken; legistlators consider a draft act only half their job. The new law will contain provisions for a reserve into which men who have completed their service will be a reserve into which men who have completed their service will be fed. Since no adequate reserve system exists now, the Congressmen will have to work one out, and many of them would like to make substantial changes in the present set-up. Chairman Vinson of the House Armed Services Committee, for example, thinks too many...
...Administration intended the new draft law to be two measures in one; it would provide for the extension of the present Selective Service Act with a lower minimum draft ago. But it will also contain long-range plans for eventual establishment of a Universal Training system. Under that set-up all men would be required to serve for a training period in the armed services and would then go into an organized and greatly expanded reserve. Through this double-proposal, the Defense Department hoped to raise a large standing army for the present crisis and at the same time establish...
When Harvard Houses were built, the administration planned that each should contain a cross-section of the College. The policy was never clearly defined, though, and some House masters have tried at times to select freshmen who would give the House a distinctive character...