Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like to give notice that he will not show up for the next war if he has to serve under any of the young leaders on the 1948 Army football squad. There were more clipping specialists, first-blocking artists, and post-whistle blockers on that outfit than you would expect to find on a commando-base pickup team...
...long as she maintained the Berlin blockade. An announcement such as Mr. Truman planned would certainly shake British and French confidence in the U.S. The move would also look as though the U.S. was undercutting U.N. Moreover, what would Arthur Vandenberg and John Foster Dulles think? Could the Administration expect the Republicans to continue support of the bipartisan foreign policy after this...
...answer to this is that bases in Spain would be available to the U.S. anyway-since it is unlikely that Franco would side with Russia. Open U.S. reliance on Spanish bases would merely panic the French, who would regard it as advance notice that the U.S. does not expect to hold France. The French want the U.S. to make its stand on the Rhine, not at the Pyrenees...
...United States--with the abandonment of the Vinson mission--are in fact presenting a unified front. We must above all continue to present that front in areas where we have commitments, such as in the Marshall Plan countries, and in Borlin. Unfortunately, however, we must also be prepared to expect the same from Russia in Czechoslovakia and in Poland. Any discussions must begin with acceptance, however regretful, that the Russians just now have as much right in Prague as we have in Rome. Making the best of existing conditions, we must abandon the fruitless line of condemnation and recrimination...
...business of being a soldier is perhaps the most specialized in the world, one which demands a mode of life more exacting and methodical than a civilian profession could hope to be. To expect a thoroughly liberal college to produce a body of men espable of maintaining the standards of duty and leadership which every Army must have at its base would be as absurd as expecting an Army camp to produce scholars and artists...