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...wrote poems. Over a period of ten years, he completed six of them, and Walpole, with whom he was again on friendly terms, secretly sent one of them to a publisher, who decided to publish it. Gray was horrified. How, he asked, could he "escape the Honour they would inflict upon me?" But he faced up to it. Elegy in a Country Churchyard (which probably contains more familiar phrases than any other poem of its length in the language*) was published and later appeared in an illustrated edition with its five fellows under the discreet title: Designs...
...While the U.N. command still can inflict "a very severe defeat" if the Communists attempt a "major offensive," its relative combat strength "is perhaps not as favorable as it was a year...
Retaliation. The next obvious question was, what can the U.S. do if the war is renewed? The Communists have used the long stalemate to build up their forces, their antiaircraft fire and their air force to the point where the U.S. probably cannot inflict enough damage in Korea to make the Reds give in on the prisoner issue or any other issue. Last week in Paris, U.S. Statesman John Foster Dulles, seven weeks retired as State Department adviser on the Far East, had an answer...
...Divest problems will inflict you on this task...
...Toll. Omaha and Council Bluffs were saved from devastation. Downstream lay other cities girded for the flood. The Missouri's crest would continue to inflict damage on the countryside, where farmers' "private" levees could not withstand it. The Army's Chief of Engineers, Lieut. General Lewis Pick, summarized the toll exacted by the Mighty Muddy as its flood passed down river from Omaha: 27 railroads blocked, 83 main highways broken, 87,000 persons displaced, 50 cities & towns flooded, 2,000,000 farm acres swamped, 153 private levees breached-a total of $200 million damage, which would...