Word: hiatuses
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...fact that U.N. forces have remained at "static" strength (about 450,000 troops), while the Communists have gradually built up overwhelming numerical superiority (about 900,000 troops), steadily swelled their air force (to at least 1,200 planes) and brought up mountains of equipment and supplies during the relative hiatus. If they chose to launch a spring offensive, Van Fleet conceded, they could hit the U.N. far harder than before. "But the chances that it will come are quite small...
...Ismay has the tact and shrewdness needed for NATO's new job. He, himself, in a House of Lords speech last year, was searchingly critical of NATO's unwieldy complexity: "Rather a lot of harness and not much horse," he called it. "I believe there is a hiatus at the summit...
...council's permanent chairman, the chief administrator of its staff, its top civilian liaison man with its nominal military subordinate. General Eisenhower, and the man who must nudge the governments to make sure they carry out their commitments. It will be up to Ismay to see that the hiatus at the summit is filled...
Ever since Cartoonist George Herriman died in 1944, and Krazy Kat disappeared from the back fence of literature, the comic strips have suffered an intellectual hiatus. One syndicate was ready with Barnaby, a cheerful little psycho whose daydreams, and all the characters in them, came to life; but where Krazy Kat breathed a sort of smoky, city poetry that anyone could sniff, Barnaby and his friends mumbled social parables that a lot of well-wishers soon wearied of puzzling...
...remedy the mid-weeks hiatus, the sagacious free-loader spends much of his time on warm Spring afternoons just walking through House court-yards and the Yard. The sounds of a good party--tinkling glasses, sniggering girls, rearing male laughter--will float down to the moocher's ear and lead him to his filling-station. Entry is simple; a more request to use the telephone will suffice...