Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many Administration leaders have made too many rash statements about the Far Eastern crisis. Although the United States is committed to a peaceful settlement of the crisis, Congressmen, State Department officials, and military authorities have spent much of their time discussing the frightening alternative. The idea of atomic bombs falling on China's densely populated cities has alarmed neutralist-minded Asians everywhere, and many non-Asians as well. "Massive retaliation" may be an eye-catching slogan, but it is time that the Administration re-evaluated its applicability to the facts of possible war in Asia...
...underground stack could eventually fill the entire South-eastern corner of the Yard, housing 2,000,000 volumes. In 1949 the first such structures was finished beneath Lamont, with a 500,000 volume capacity...
Despite the obvious signs that spring has come, the annual Harvard-Dartmouth slalom takes place tomorrow. Only a snow avalanche, and there was one a few years ago, can stop about 70 skiers from completing the Eastern ski season with an unusual meet that one long-time participant described as, "a lot of fun, because it is not taken too seriously by the competitors, but it has just enough interest and keenness of competition...
Raymond Massey, as a power-mad prince who wants to carve out a personal empire, is the chief of the Oriental evildoers. His flowing robes and turban do not quite succeed in converting him into an Indian ruler, but his perpetual and disdainful sneer gives a suggestion of Eastern inscrutability. Captain Carruthers, played by Roger Livesey, foils his plans with the legendary stolid determination of the British colonial officers. Livesey's characterization is so stereotyped that, at times, it almost sinks to burlesque. Somebody, however, usually shows up in time with a knife or a machine gun to keep...
...first match of the vacation tour the Crimson's upset victory over the Eastern Canadian All-Stars made them unofficial favorites. Chalsty scored both tries in the game...