Word: equipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East, including more aid to Chiang and more force against the Communists. This, and his charge that the State Department's Far Eastern policy was "bankrupt," caused his enemies in Washington to label him "the Senator from Formosa." This political position, plus his Pacific Coast following, equip him particularly well to balance a ticket headed by Eisenhower...
...police broke in half an hour later, most of the evidence was gone. Other raids were more productive. Lyon yielded a rich crop of stolen French army seals, handy for forging identity papers. Clermont-Ferrand and Toulon produced enough nuts, bolts, clubs, buckshot and shoemakers' knives to equip a hundred riots...
...ought to do, does it not impose its own restrictions upon the number of students enrolling in them? And why does the University see fit to grant any credit whatever for these courses? They certainly contribute not one whit to that education with which Harvard seeks to equip its students; on the contrary, they seriously detract from that education by occupying the students' time with senseless military trivia, and by attempting to inculcate them with values which are completely antiethical to those which Harvard tries to impart...
...regulars and half draftees, has only 560 lieutenants and sublieutenants, 76 majors and captains, four colonels. While Viet Nam officer schools, manned by nearly 4,000 French military instructors, are turning out more than 100 officer candidates every month, the army is still short on training, combat experience and equipment. There are enough U.S. Garands to equip two divisions; otherwise, except for some U.S. artillery and transport, the weapons are French and outdated. Nguyen Van Hinh's biggest problem: to get money to pay his soldiers and buy new equipment. In this department he has the solid support...
...Bolivia's foreign exchange, is the revolution's No. 1 question. Paz ran in 1951 on a nationalization platform. His backer, Juan Lechin, Marxist mine labor leader who now holds the new office of Minister of Mine: and Petroleum, is on record that "the workers must equip themselves to run the mine: effectively without the assistance of the owners." Paz almost certainly still intends to nationalize the mines, but he apparently means to go slow. For one thing, recognition from Washington may depend on moderation. One rumor circulating in La Paz is that the government will take over...