Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aide, Major General Courtney Whitney, he issued a statement which began by calling the Truman remark "inaccurate and misleading." MacArthur went on: "My purpose and desire was not to extend the war but only to end it. At that time, this could have been accomplished with only a fraction of the approximately 70,000 American battle casualties which have since resulted. Actually, the longer it lasts, the greater the chance of its spreading...
...levels, the British talk airily of "new weapons" (e.g., U.S. atomic artillery) which might reduce the need for men on the ground. But economics is still at the root of the trouble. Forced to guard its solvency by gambling with its safety, Britain is exporting a sizable fraction of its arms production (e.g., Centurion tanks) to earn foreign exchange...
What has always been the most curious to us, however, is the undoubted fact that the number of Communists in government has never been more than a handful, a fraction of the numbers which have been assaulting France and Italy for years in vain. Yet no one, not even the most ardent anti-McCarthyite, has asked the question: how much actual damage has been done by these subversives? It is natural to be troubled by the idea of foreign agents in one's government, but if the consequences have not been very serious one has no cause for hysteria...
...tests (paid for by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis) in Provo, Utah, Sioux City, Iowa, and Houston (TIME, July 14). In all, 54,772 children aged one to eleven got inoculations while polio epidemics were raging. Half the children received shots of gamma globulin, the small fraction of human blood which contains protective antibodies. The other half received useless (but harmless) gelatin. Nobody, not even the doctors, knew at the time which child got which shot...
According to George Gallup, about 45% of U.S. voters could now sing Our Adlai with something approaching full-throated conviction. That's a lot of voters-and a fraction more than the polls gave Harry Truman at a comparable time in 1948. But in some respects it is a wonder that anyone has a chance to sing Our Adlai at all. Ten months ago, Adlai Stevenson was not even a name in the national consciousness; his rise has been unmatched in U.S. politics since Wendell Willkie's star raced across...