Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Should the U.S. build up an elaborate and expensive system of defense against atomic-thermonuclear attack, or can it rely on retaliatory striking power to deter attack? Last week two of the nation's most respected atomic scientists argued that deterrent power is necessary but not sufficient...
...know how grievous American casualties in Korea have been; they could have been less grievous if General MacArthur had not raced north to the Yalu frontier and provoked the Chinese into crossing it. This was, in our view, the point at which the concept of the police action to deter aggression lost its validity...
...Doubt." Taft was distinctly not recommending that the U.S. completely abandon the United Nations. One section of his speech was a clear, if limited, endorsement of the U.N.: "I believe in the United Nations myself . . . It does have many methods by which, through peaceful persuasion, it can deter and prevent war. It has important agencies which are concerned with the improvement of conditions throughout the world...
...Abhorring war as a chosen way to balk the purposes of those who threaten us, we hold it to be the first task of statesmanship to develop the strength that will deter the forces of aggression and promote the conditions of peace...
...criticism. What you want is free publicity . . . but three-quarters of the films are designed for adolescents . . . When you put in an ad for Esther Williams in the one-piece bathing suit, you do it just to tell people it's there and available. Nothing I say will deter those people who just want to see Esther Williams floating on her back. But if I say it's a good film too, a lot of people who wouldn't go otherwise will...