Word: iii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...currently, Russians excel as artillerists. Their artillery weapons are generally excellent - their World War II 76-mm. cannon was one of the best in its class. Their tanks are equally good; their T-34 medium is a match for all but the newest U.S. tanks and their Joseph Stalin III may be the best in service any where...
...death, Handsome Dan III was presented by Alumni to Coach Raymond (Ducky) Pond. A huge white animal, looking much like the original, Dan III soon shamed the Elis by showing a yellow streak. He was afraid of crowds and shunned his Saturday afternoon duties...
...student journalists, Paul Bancroft III, Business Manager, William A. Douglas, vice-Chairman, Putney Westerfield, associate managing editor, and Bruce Monerief, circulation manager put together their book by selling space rights to loading firms around the nation who wanted to describe what sort of manpower they needed...
...bandit interventionists in Korea!" The evening before, in the Bolshoi Theater, a select audience of top-level comrades & commissars heard Politburocrat Nikolai Bulganin compare the war in Korea with the civil war in Russia when the Allies unsuccessfully intervened against the Bolsheviks. Accusing the U.S. of instigating World War III with the aim of destroying the Soviet Union, Bulganin keynoted: "The Soviet people are able to defend . . . their homeland . . . with guns in hand...
World War III? Partial, unadmitted intervention would have some advantages in Chinese eyes. It might serve to protect the great Yalu River power dams (see map) from which Manchuria draws electric power for its factories. It might save face for the Communists in Asia, might prevent the U.N. from creating a stable, anti-Communist nation on China's borders. It would surely profit the U.S.S.R. which would be delighted to see U.S. energies drained by a long Asian...