Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...team will have to meet the threat. But the decision on the forces they will direct must be taken, at least in part-and with proper civilian analysis of the proposals of the military-before the old team steps out. If the U.S. drifts too long, it may not get the chance to change direction again. Said a top War Department strategist last week: "They say we can't afford it. Maybe we've got to afford it. What will a man give to save his life...
Monre, who will officially replace Dean elect Wilbur J. Bender '27 as head of the Weld Hall maze on July 1, explained that previously all applicants were considered on their war service record but now can be lumped with applicants direct from secondary school...
Hungary, occupied by the Red Army, lies beyond direct reach of U.S. policy. So the Russians decided to consolidate their power before the Red Army withdrew. France and Italy, on the other hand, lie in a world where U.S. economic and political pressure cannot yet be shut off by the Communists. U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall promptly underlined the lesson; he 1) canceled the unused half of a $30,000,000 U.S. credit to Hungary; 2) wished "every success" to Italy's new Red-less Government...
...bare four days before the opening of Prague's International Music Festival, music-loving Czechs got an impressive answer to a question they had been asking for a year: Whom will the Russians send? The answer came in a red-starred C-47 direct from Moscow: Russia had sent thin, 40-year-old Dmitri Shostakovich, one of the world's five greatest living composers...
...reason is that Angel never carves his figures direct; he first models them in clay, lets professional stone-carvers copy them, then adds the final touches. Last week Saint John, in stone, was ready for Angel's chisel. A carver still labored on the pedestal, but the Saint stood clear, listening above the mallet...