Word: either
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hold war to be inevitable . . . [But] if we should be confronted again with a calculated armed attack such as we have twice seen in the 20th Century, I should not suppose that we would decide that any action other than the use of armed force would be effective, either as an exercise of the right of self-defense or as necessary to restore the peace and security of the North Atlantic area...
...propaganda potato had been tossed to Secretary of State Acheson; it was either keep it and get burned, or toss it back. He cupped it gingerly in his hands, and heaved it back. Twenty-two Soviet bloc citizens, including top Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich, had applied to visit the U.S. They would be chief exhibits at a "cultural and scientific conference for world peace" this week in Manhattan...
Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.) saw the Roman Empire begin to crumble about him in war, invasion, pestilence and revolution. A great Stoic, he wrote: "Soon, very soon, thou wilt be ashes, or a skeleton, and either a name or not even a name . . . Why then dost thou not wait in tranquillity for thy end?" The U.S. Navy, contemplating the atomic age, last week achieved a comparable attitude...
...replacement capital cannot come from individuals of either class, it must come from the state. Can the state, without calamity, take a higher bite in taxes out of all the incomes of its citizens? The Economist thinks not. In fact, it said: "The long continuance of taxation of anything like 40% of the national income will ruin the country. It will not do so spectacularly in any one year or the next-there might be more hope if it would...
...surplus set was quickly identified as an I.F.F. transmitter (Identification, Friend or Foe), a highly secret wartime device used by ships and planes for broadcasting an identification signal. If the plane crashed, the "Destructor" exploded, making a molten mass of the wiring and preventing the enemy from reproducing either the wiring or the identification signal...