Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power on hand to sweep to the Channel, to the Persian Gulf and the oil areas, to the southern extremity of Korea, or through China. Obviously it is not in Russia's immediate calculations to make any such vast move, which would certainly bring on World War III. Military men feel that only an accident, e.g., a hasty, intemperate move by a Russian satellite, could precipitate such a catastrophe. But it is within Russia's potentialities, and that is what military men worry about. Men fighting the battle of foreign relations worry about...
Atomic attack would not necessarily be decisive. World War III, as it looks even to airmen today, would be a long, grueling battle, fought with World War II strategy and, at least at first, with World War II weapons. Soldiers argue that money and pains spent in military preparation against war prevent more disastrous expenditures to wage war itself...
...bill is only a peacetime measure, and does not touch the vastly greater problem of medical mobilization for a possible World War III. On that problem, the delegates were confronted with a grim report by a special committee headed by A.M.A.'s president, Dr. Edward L. Bortz of Philadelphia...
...more than 100 years, Etonians have worn top hats to school and to military drill, sometimes stuffed with pencils and books like an extra pocket. Since 1820, Eton boys have worn black, in mourning for George III. Only boys under 5 ft. 4 in. wear Eton jackets and wide Eton collars; when they grow bigger they graduate into tail coats and narrow collars. Etonians must always leave the bottom buttons of their waistcoats unbuttoned, say "absence"' when they mean roll call, and talk a jargon that new boys study from a glossary, may not furl their umbrellas unless they...
...privacy of his Tacoma home, where he enjoys martinis and practical jokes. In the basement he has a complete woodworking shop where he makes and repairs furniture. Not all his carpentering is successful. One winter Phil built a 15-foot sailboat with his two sons, George and John Philip III (Flip), now students of forestry at Yale. (There are also two daughters.) When launched, the boat promptly sank; it was badly caulked...