Word: disrupts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hadn't the President called up the 26 National Guard divisions? It would provide more men than needed, and disrupt the nation's whole life. If some Guard divisions were called and not others, there would be complaints of discrimination. Explained a defense official: "We don't need great masses of men. We just need to bring some units up to strength...
...India's 92nd case of railway sabotage in six months. It was also, many Indians were convinced, part of a Communist campaign to disrupt the country's railroad system...
...Europeans, integration is a wonderful ideal, but at the moment is very impractical. Their leaders have been working to restore industry on its pre-war basis. Their attention is focused on national improvement, and no politician will do anything that will temporarily disrupt his country's economy, even if it is for the long run good...
...response of official Washington was just as discouraging. Streit & friends were told that even if they were headed in the right direction, they were going too fast. Better try first to bring off a European federation. Atlantic Union would disrupt U.N. and would put an unnatural and embarrassing burden on U.S. defense forces...
...Saigon "incident" lit up an obscure and most important corner of the free world's struggle against Communism. In this corner lurked a dangerous fact: the Communists in many parts of the world had the ability to disrupt by violence U.S. efforts to help non-Communist governments and peoples. So far, the U.S. had been able to avoid (or evade) answering force with force. In the Berlin blockade it had flown over Communist force, in the Greek war it had armed and trained Greeks to meet it, and in China it had simply backed away from...