Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whether many or few are trained to serve, the House manpower subcommittee figures that only half of today's twenty-two year olds will ever have to serve. Further, as the crop of "war babies" matures, only one-third of a generation will be used militarily. You can draft some of the people for some of your needs, out not all of the people for all of your needs...
...company, using Mutual's facilities and staff. Not only did the parallel company, United Benefit Life Insurance Co., wax rich in the years that followed, but later, Mutual officers who owned most of the privately held United stock proposed to have Mutual buy them out for $24.5 million, half of Mutual's surplus. The suit led to a compromise in 1952. Mutual was allowed to spend $16 million to buy some 65% of United's shares. United had to pay $1,000,000 in damages to Mutual...
Author Moscow shows how the "unsinkable" Doria proved to have been as badly designed, for her day and in her way, as the Titanic. The number of lifeboats, ample in theory, proved woefully inadequate in practice, because half of them on the high (undamaged) side could not be launched. Undisciplined stewards and kitchen help swarmed into the first boats away and took them to the Stockholm, where they stayed idle. The rule "women and children first" gave way to "the strongest first." The wonder is that not more than 62 lives were lost...
...with the warning: "This is as it may have happened. The speeches are composed by the writer." In The Ship (1943) Briton Forester showed that he could get inside the skins and skulls of British naval officers and ratings. But in his saga of the great BB (battleship) Bismarck, half the protagonists are German, and Forester's attempts at characterization lapse into caricature. The lines he has written for them are implausibly naive...
...definitely not admiration. The moment one stops to say. 'Isn't that lovely!' one is in danger of losing the way." Beauty's shadow is significance: "Every great painting shows something seen plus something seen into . . . sight and insight." If the surface story is only half the story in a painting, the "latent content" is the other half, the question the artist answered without consciously asking...