Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under Major General Oliver P. Smith (see below), the ist Marines had been assembled from stations as distant as the Mediterranean and as near as the Pusan front...
...early morning of Sept. 15, when our LSD slipped into the channel leading to Wolmi, the atmosphere had grown tight. Shortly before 3 a.m. we saw bright, distant flashes of gunfire. The naval bombardment had begun. By 4:30 a tongue of flame was licking upward from the direction of Inchon. Aboard the LSD two lines of marines groped their way from troops' compartments to the three LSUs. A young marine said wistfully: "Three months ago I was so happy...
...this was a simple one-two relevance the war called you and you want to it. If you were between 18 and 25, unmarried, strong of body and sound of mind, there was perhaps a year, as best, intervening between one and two. No matter who you were, this distant, limited war was there a fact...
...could do. That was another summer fact. In Korea there was a war, and in Cambridge you bought ashtrays, and stood in book lines, and told the University whether or not you operated a car. For a year that was the way things would be. For the more distant future, you could walk at night down to the Charles, stand there with the lights of the Business School reflecting clean and bright off the water, and quietly hope...
Bureaucratic Battle. This new agency will be the nearest thing to the old WPB -but still only a distant cousin, since many of the WPB powers will be spread among other departments. The Agriculture Department's Charles Brannan, for example, will control production of food, agricultural equipment, cotton, wool and other textiles. Interior's Oscar Chapman will regulate the production and distribution of electric power, gas, petroleum, coal and other minerals. Wage controls will probably be the special province of Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin...