Word: defendable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spain. Three years ago, U.S. military men led by the late Admiral Forrest Sherman convinced the Truman Administration that the U.S. must have air and naval bases in Spain in order to defend Europe. But in the ensuing horse-trading, the State Department failed to put enough pressure on Franco. Last January, under new management, the State Department began to move briskly. Last week the U.S. finally got its Spanish bases...
...shame . . . Every group, it appears, is a special interest group . . . People's attitude seems to be ... that we can have prosperity and security without paying for them. I hope there are a few citizens who thank their lucky stars that they can afford to pay taxes to defend their land, afford to pay for all the luxuries Americans enjoy . . . who deem it a privilege to help the world remain free, so that we may remain free ourselves. We are admittedly a warm-hearted people when disaster strikes. Must we be awakened by a cataclysm...
State consults Defense closely on another kind of matter, i.e., on the list of areas of the world the U.S. is prepared to defend. This is the old loop (or snare) theory all over again (TIME, Jan. 15, 1951). It assumes that all choice is in the enemy's hands, and that the U.S. can only try to guess where the enemy will strike and try to prepare itself for his thrust...
...toughest of all golf titles to defend is the National Amateur; in 40 years only two golfers, Bobby Jones (1924-25, 1927-28) and Lawson Little (1934-35), have done it successfully. Last week, at the Oklahoma City Country Club, G.O.P. Congressman Jack Westland, 48, of Everett, Wash., the 1952 winner, set out to defend his crown from 200 topflight amateurs. He found the pressure as heavy as ever. Westland lasted only until the third round...
...Only weeks after it had been pronounced dying and all but ready for burial, the dream of a European Army to defend a united and free Europe came alive again...