Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Solomonic Judgment? Whether the uniformed chiefs agreed or not, their diverse blueprints might yet be overlaid to make the plan of a structure which all would have to accept and support. As Senator Lister Hill (a merger advocate) told the Navy in a Solomonic judgment: "You could take that entire overall setup depicted in your chart and lay it over the Army plan without greatly disturbing either one." The Army would get the merger it has fought for; the Air Forces would get its equality; the Navy would get the overall coordination it has preached. Each would have to give...
Whether or not Germans were impressed, the trials were the only way humanity had found to bring Hitler's heirs to judgment...
...Russian and French colleagues: "The ultimate step in avoiding periodic wars ... is to make statesmen responsible to law. And let me make clear that while this law is first applied against German aggressors, the law . . . must condemn aggression by any other nation, including those which now sit here in judgment...
American girls from the audience served as scented guinea pigs. Sure enough, the same essence on three different skins smelled differently to G.I. judges. Labourdette put some on my hand. A G.I. smelled and passed judgment: "On you it stinks." Whereupon, we all had some champagne and the party broke up bubbling with good will...
...today! Nobody else can write with such technical perfection, with such instrumentation. And all the time there is beautiful melody ! " Peter and the Wolves. Not all Boston's music-goers share Koussevitsky's enthusi asm for his fellow Russians - Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich - but they respect his judgment. Koussevitsky rates 39-year-old Shostakovich as a great-composer-to-be and 54-year-old Prokofiev as a great composer who has already arrived...