Word: fulls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy's Case. Next day, on Capitol Hill, in the full glare of newsreel lights. the Navy at last told what had been gnawing at its heart. Its spokesman was four-star Admiral Radford, the man naval aviators everywhere recognize as their champion, the officer who built the Navy's wartime air arm as director of aviation training, a brilliant fighting commander, and long an outspoken enemy of service unification...
...that the Navy was determinedly opposed to many vital aspects of national defense-from the purchase of long-range bombers to matters of highest military policy. Presumably the differences between the Navy, the Administration and the other services were not irreconcilable, but it would take nothing less than a full-dress investigation to get them working in harmony again. The inquiry, which would probably run for months, could not be carried on without laying military plans and procedures bare, in the open where Russia would be listening carefully. But there was now no other...
...satisfaction in a gracious little off-the-cuff speech during lunch at the officers' club. He also confessed that as a politician he had been completely fascinated by one of the Army's less lethal developments-a pocket loudspeaker which would project the human voice for a full two miles...
...Johnson was not disarmed. His committee voted 7 to 0 to reject Olds's nomination and two days later the full Senate Committee of Interstate and Foreign Commerce voted 10 to 2 against Olds. It would have been more honest, observed the Washington Post, had the committee rejected him ''on the candid ground that he has been stubborn in his opposition to the utility interests...
...Pandit has a patrician approach. It was a little time, after she arrived in Washington, before she discovered that she did not have full access to the White House and would have to deal with the State Department. Last week, asked by newsmen what her brother's visit might do for Indo-American relations, she snapped back: "The Prime Minister has not shared his mind with me, nor is it customary for a prime minister who desires to have secret talks to discuss them with his ambassador. And you can quote me on that...