Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...memorandum that passed down through the Air Force recently warned: "Our No. 1 problem within the Air Force is the current and future shortage of trained, experienced men . . . During this year we may lose as many as 200,000 men. Among them will be veteran pilots and experienced staff officers." The memo could have included top air commanders, for last week the head of the Strategic Air Command's combat-ready Eighth Air Force, 43-year-old Major General John B. Montgomery, resigned from the service. A non-West Pointer (Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.C.), Montgomery was a colonel...
...report on a way to relieve man's most atrocious pain by injecting hot water into a bundle of nerves behind the forehead. Victims of tic douloureux, an excruciating form of neuralgia, said Philadelphia's Neurosurgeon J. Rudolph Jaeger, are often too feeble for radical surgery, and lose their faith in doctors because most medical treatments give only short-lived relief. Under light general anesthesia, a needle is pushed through the cheek to the base of the skull, the surgeon following it by X ray. When it hits the Gasserian ganglion, he injects scalding water...
...guilty. We believe the real choice lies between continuing to deal with international problems on the old basis of military power and attempting to deal with them on the new and revolutionary basis of nonviolence . . . Thus, we would rather give up our military strength . . . than keep our guns and lose our democracy...
...move in a little faster. Tell her I am so very fond of Bowie. Linda responds, Yes, he certainly can charm the birds off the trees. I go on and say, Of course you have so much to offer, dear. Linda asks, How do you mean? I then lose my head, jump the gun, and cry, All I want is your happiness, and my eyes fill with tears. Linda throws down her scissors and exclaims, Mummie! Are you trying to have A Little Talk...
...proposed 1) a common market for all European products, 2) the integration of European highways and railroads, 3) a European pool for the development of atomic power. But the French wanted to go slow, and the Germans, who used to be ardently supranational when they had no sovereignty to lose, no longer seemed keen to surrender any of their national independence...