Word: guarding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shrink on July 1. Guard and Reserves at present manpower levels. The Administration had planned to trim uniformed manpower, e.g., the Army from 900,000 men to 870,000, in keeping with missile-age defense concepts...
...function of helping prevent war and of furthering a just peace has become of transcendent importance . . . The armed forces have become, indeed, great shields to guard the peace." One helpful quality, concluded Ike, is "a healthy and lively sense of humor ... I hope your own sense of humor is sufficiently active to assure your tolerance of the thoughts I have placed before you, even if you feel no compelling reason for pondering them...
...There are some who feel that this struggle is necessarily fated to end either in war or by the triumph of revolutionary Communism. I believe that to be too pessimistic a judgment. Of course the free world must be firm as well as fair. We must not lower our guard. We must not fall victim to propaganda or to mere exhaustion. Nor must we delude ourselves by wishful thinking. We must not conceive of peace as a state of inactivity, something that can be just enjoyed; it has to be won by struggle and effort...
...after commencement, a National Guard captain and two G.I.s-the last Guardsmen left at Central High-got in a jeep and drove off to be de-federalized...
...certain amount of this liberal tradition remains an element of the Associated Harvard Clubs today. AHC Headquarters are located in St. Louis, and there is a feeling, chiefly among the "old guard" of the organization, that removal of the offices to Cambridge might destroy its independent nature...