Word: ever
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offensive tactics would undergo no basic alterations. No responsible strategist had ever believed that atomic bombs alone could win a war. But with atom bombs and bombers in the hands of an enemy, the Army & Navy, as well as the Air Force, took on new and immediate importance. If the U.S. wanted security, it would have to buy the full, costly package...
...Michigan's ailing Arthur Vandenberg and New York's John Foster Dulles, who had forced the Administration to trim its demand into acceptable form, met his measured argument with measured reply. "If it is properly handled, it can be the greatest economy measure which this country has ever adopted," said Dulles. "Let us not lose our perspective," Vandenberg urged. "The objective is . . . defense for the common cause, this common cause, among other things, being the defense of the United States." Old Tom Connally, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, explained: "The North Atlantic Treaty and the military-assistance...
Arrogant and imperturbable as ever, Lewis surveyed the idle coal fields and kept his own counsel. He drove his Cadillac over to White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. (acquiring a ticket for speeding on the way) to attend negotiations with the northern, and western coal operators. John Lewis had no quarrel with them over the miners' welfare-fund payments; they had paid theirs faithfully, even sending along $3,000,000 last week despite the strike...
...Well, you have a lot of ideas about it. Will they ever get done...
While most delegates would agree with Trygve Lie that the U.N. was more than ever "indispensable," none seemed to know what would make it less ineffectual. Delegates could face their problems only in the somber spirit of U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson's opening speech to the Assembly: "To the extent that we cannot solve them today, we must endure them...