Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that he had not asked enough. It appropriated a $15.6 billion defense budget, a record for peacetime, adding funds for an extra ten groups to the 48-group Air Force requested by the White House. It strengthened the powers of the Secretary of Defense, created a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, increased the pay of all military ranks...
...defense of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Air Force against attacks made on them by a rebellious group of Navy officers had reached its climax...
Hard-bitten General Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had taken the witness stand before the tense audience in the House Armed Services Committee room. Infantryman Bradley began to read his statement, which he had handwritten without help from public-relations experts, in his quarters at Fort Myer...
...never going to start the war," he said. Therefore the strategy of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was premised on the assumption that the U.S. would be attacked. "We will have to carry the war back to the enemy by all means at our disposal. I am convinced that this will include strategic air bombardment and large-scale land operations." There would be little need for Pacific island-hopping after the early phases, he thought, or any need for such amphibious operations as the Normandy invasion...
Traditional treatment for the stiffened joints of arthritis has been to scrape the ends of the bones, then wrap the exposed bone surfaces in a smooth material to keep the scar tissue from sticking the joint together again. But in the knee joint, where wear & tear is heavy, such an operation gave only short relief: as the material wore out, the joints stiffened up again...