Word: finds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they have now decided to risk a war, it can only be because they, and their Soviet allies, have decided to find out whether threatening war is a policy from which they can make big gains...
...would see the Chinese Communists seize Quemoy. He told restive free world allies that, with or without them, the U.S. was determined to stand against the kind of appeasement that led down the road to World War II. And inferentially, he warned the U.S. not to be surprised to find the Armed Forces fighting to defend Quemoy-not for the rocky real estate but for the principle that armed force shall not be used for aggressive purposes. "I know something about . . . war," said Dwight Eisenhower, in a nationwide radio-TV speech, and he predicted an inevitable tragedy "if the peace...
...Justice Voelker-who is privately "revolted" by nudism-went after some offensive cops. Four carloads of flatfeet had raided the nudists' camp, "descending upon these unsuspecting souls like storm troopers, herding them before clicking cameras like plucked chickens." It was "indecent-indeed the one big indecency we can find in this whole case," and the "final irony" came when a warrant was sworn out that one of the cops was "the aggrieved victim of an indecent exposure. It seems that we are now prepared to burn down the house of constitutional safeguards in order to roast a few nudists...
...consider the system infallible. In 20 to 100 cases a year, natural earthquakes might be mistaken for deep underground tests. So they recommended that the international organization running the control system be permitted to go immediately to any suspected area and look for evidence of testing. Human ingenuity might find some way to fool this inspection too. but the experts decided that the risk of exposure would be extremely high...
Thus, depth in the line will probably tell the tale. If the Crimson can avoid damaging injuries, especially up front, the varsity could find itself in the Ivy League's first division; if not, there'll be many a sad Saturday afternoon in the Stadium this fall...