Word: ernest
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Against, Not For. So the Navy had no plan: it was just against the Army's plan. Flinty Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King sailed into it with all his guns blazing. A single military commander of armed forces (distinct from the civilian President) would be "potentially a man on horseback." Furthermore, said Ernie King, without batting an eye, the merger would weaken civilian control over the armed services...
...structural stresses. The Navy wants to make at least two tests: 1) of an atomic bomb exploding above the surface; 2) of a bomb exploding underwater at determined depths. For the tests to be worth anything, the Navy figures it will need some 20 to 30 ships-Fleet Admiral Ernest King suggested 80 to 100. Enemy vessels may be used, but the Navy also wants to measure the effect on its own construction...
Then Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin hulked to his feet. Said he: "I wish there were similar parliaments . . . and free and unfettered discussion of this problem in other countries in Europe. . . . There are two kinds of hunger in Europe today. One is physical. . . . But I sometimes think that the awful blackout over Europe is creating a great spiritual hunger...
...Major Ernest A. Simpson, second husband of the Duchess of Windsor, sailed for Europe on the Queen Mary...
Since Matthew, Mark, Luke and John first wrote it down, the story has been retold by many a brash biographer (notably: Ernest Renan, George Moore, Emil Ludwig). But the original Gospel story still stands four-square against all comers. Undaunted by the experience of his predecessors,* Columbia's Professor Emeritus John Erskine, who has already tried his hand at fiddling with Greek myths where Homer nodded (The Private Life of Helen of Troy, Penelope's Man), last week came forward with a new version of the Gospel story (The Human Life of Jesus; Morrow...