Word: jettisoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are only two alternatives: either shave down the School to a point where its scant endowment is adequate, or jettison it altogether...
...this, the JCS members were finally willing to jettison the old dollar-for-dollar concept of balanced forces; they approved $22 billion of the 1953 Defense Department budget for the Air Force, as compared with the Navy's $13 billion and the Army's $14 billion. By implication-if not by -affirmation-the U.S. had come a long way toward accepting a doctrine most impressively stated by Winston Churchill at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in March 1949. "For good or ill," said he, "air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power, and fleets and armies, however...
...year-old Nye Bevan walked out of the smoke & brimstone a bigger, more powerful man than when the battle started. He and his left-wingers, frankly anxious to jettison Britain's bipartisanship in foreign policy, had forced the Attlee leadership into battle with Churchill. When the rout came, it was Bevan who stepped into the breach...
...stories from New York and Washington to a size convenient for the cramped space of small papers. For their part, participating publishers had to use the same sizes of body type so the A.P.'s and U.P.'s spacing would fit all columns. And they had to jettison their favorite eccentricities of style, accept wire-service punctuation, capitalization and word division. But publishers like the economies it promises. Said Publisher Dave J. Whichard Jr., after a U.P. test run at his Greenville (N.C.) Reflector (circ. 5,227): "I can operate three linotype machines with only...
...Britain, angry and unbowed, lurched along through the Great Muddle. The nation had survived far greater crises. The unique feature of this one was that it seemed to have no focus, no great principle at stake, no end. If the clamor got too great, Attlee could always jettison Webb and agree to the Argentine meat price. Socialism was an admirable instrument for rationing discomfort and deadening pain...