Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sodden rot of defeat, surrender and demoralization is eating its way through the fragile fabric of earnest little Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem's hard-trying but still disorganized South Viet Nam government. Diem's power probably does not extend as far as 30 kilometers from Saigon itself, say some knowledgeable foreign observers, and in many instances not that far. At Mytho, at Baclieu, at Vinhlong and numberless other towns and villages in the south, Viet Minh control is complete and recognized-the presence of nominal officials of the Vietnamese government notwithstanding...
Across Asia, the world's largest and most heavily populated continent, the doubt was spreading, the fabric of resistance fraying. Japanese conservatives and liberals alike were discussing "peaceful coexistence." In Thailand, U.S. officials weighed the mood and concluded: "America has no monopoly of agonizing reappraisals." In Hong Kong, one anti-Communist bank manager had already made up his mind: "America has the strength -but not the guts...
...pacifist of much ability and few scruples") and a poorer one of the Democratic Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan ("an amiable, windy creature who knows almost nothing"). When World War I began. Roosevelt was an interventionist. He saw the invasion of Belgium as a desperate threat to the fabric of international law. and denounced Wilson's "spiritless neutrality" in the face of it. ("I should have backed the protest by force.") Repeatedly he offered to furnish and equip a volunteer cavalry division for emergency war service. ("I and my four sons" were to be among its officers...
Hopper Helper. A new freight car for bulk shipments of dry powdered commodities (feed, chemicals), which formerly had to be transported in containers, was put into production by General American Transportation Corp. The car contains bins with slanted sides lined with a porous, silicon-treated fabric. To unload the car, air is blown at low pressure under the fabric, breaking up hard-packed cargo so that it flows like water through hatches under...
...Harold C. Hunt, the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, took issue with Griswold's statement that secondary schools turn out students so poorly prepared for college that "the whole fabric of higher education becomes a bridge built upon rotten pilings...