Word: gird
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the U.S. oil pipeline system would gird the globe 7½ times, it is still not enough. In Houston last week, six oil companies (Continental, Standard of California, Gulf, Richfield, Shell and Superior) prepared to fill another gap in the system, jointly formed the Four Corners Pipe Line Co. to supply California with its first piped crude oil. Houstonian R. G. McIntyre, recently retired chairman of the board of Standard Oil of Texas, was elected president of Four Corners, named for the oil-rich area where the borders of Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado meet. The new line...
...better jobs, a flourishing agriculture, happier living for every family, peace and plenty for all people−these call for a strong, growing, private-enterprise economy." ¶ "To stay free we must stay strong. Though we must recognize that peace cannot be gained by arms alone, yet we must gird ourselves with sufficient military strength to discourage resort to war and to protect our nation's vital interests; moreover, we must help to strengthen the collective defense of free nations...
...blindness to the need for sacrifices. "The question is," he said, "shall we equip army, navy and air force to enable them to repel the enemy or shall we raise our standard of living?" The answer came from the trade union's own newspaper Davar: "The nation must gird itself for a regime of austerity, self-denial and sacrifice...
...sight of free men. I have learned this the stern way-from the sight of war." So, too, had he learned of evil: "The organized evil challenging free men in their quest of peace." The great battle against Communism is above all a moral encounter, and freedom needs to gird itself with unity of all classes for the common good, with "the faith teaching us all that we are children of God," with hope "in the greatness and genius of America...
Little was known about the visitors from St. Louis, said by the program to be Harvard's fourth opponent from west of the Mississippi in 79 years. As the scribes watched the varsity gird itself from high atop Critics' Roost, they pooled what information they had, helped along by their keeper, W. Henry Johnston, the sports publicist...