Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could limit itself to local tactical action aimed at stopping the invasion of Quemoy and Matsu. Both Quemoy and Matsu lie so close offshore that U.S. naval and air operations would be severely restricted in effectiveness. Fleets of Red junks assembled and launched by night might unload their troops before U.S. sea and air forces could stop them. Even in the face of this sort of U.S. intervention, the Communists might...
When Oregon's waggy-tongued Wayne Morse set a 22-hour, 26-minute filibuster record in the U.S. Senate in April 1953, politicians and nonpoliticians hoped that a limit had been reached. But last week a new record was set, naturally enough, in Texas. Arguing for an amendment to provide an extra $1,000,000 appropriation for the state's medical-school hospital, State Senator Jimmy Phillips babbled an hour and nine minutes beyond Morse's record. Then the Texas Senate, 14-11, voted down the amendment, just as the U.S. Senate had voted against Morse...
Open to all honors candidates of both Harvard and Radcliffe, the field will be closely patterned after the Department of History and Literature, he stated. Unlike History and Literature, however, there will be no limit on the number of qualified students that the department will accept...
McMorrow said he definitely favored some kind of legislation which would limit the rights of teachers who employ the fifth amendment. "Everyone has the right to plead the fifth amendment," he claimed, "but not everyone has the right to teach...
...Page explained it: "Your capacity for tension has a limit beyond which it isn't safe to go ... The patterns you establish in your late 20s and early 30s largely determine your load-carrying capacities during your 40s and later. Crackups in middle life are usually the consequence of what you have accumulated or abused in your earlier years. Most crackups are needless. They are a self-invited penalty that we Americans are paying for a doubtful standard of material success. In Europe, and over most of the world, physical and mental crackups are rare, despite wars and tensions...