Word: dependables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than at any time in U.S. peacetime history, the armed forces depend for their career officers not primarily on West Point and Annapolis, but on 350 civilian colleges and universities. Big new source of supply: the Reserve Officers Training Corps, which now has some 285,000 members-about one-fifth of the nation's male college population. This June 30,700 R.O.T.C. seniors will get commissions and fulfill their service obligations by going on active duty for at least two years...
...there are millions of people doomed to remain in barbed-wire camps without the rights or protection of any nation. They are neither criminals nor prisoners of war. Rather, they are the unfortunate victims of international dislocation and revolution. These refugees cannot appeal to any court or law; they depend on the mercy of national whims and humanitarian groups...
...summers of six weeks each. Though six weeks of training might seem the saturation point for any one time, there is an excellent reason for the twelve week set-up. At Harvard, and most of the schools where the plan might later be adopted, there are students who depend on their summer earnings to see them through the college year. Taking six weeks out of a summer already makes it hard for many of these men to find jobs, and there is little point in extending this problems into two summers. Since one vacation will be chopped short anyway...
...doubles entry will depend upon the single results. If the match is already clinched Barnaby will be able to experiment with untried and inexperienced combinations. If the match is still in doubt, Rauh and Haegler will probably team at number one, with Gravem and Harris at Second doubles...
...leave harbor, the Times ran the headline, "Continent Cut Off by Fog." But only the fog was unusual; Great Britain has traditionally been cut off from Europe. Since the days of henry VII and Cardinal Wolsey, England has tried to stand aloof from entangling alliances on the Continent and depend on sea power for strength. At the same time, Britain has feared the emergence of a great power in Europe. In line with these dual aims, the English have traditionally regarded themselves as the holders of the balance of power, rather than active participants in European politics...