Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which the U.S. already has big hydrogen weapons "beyond rational bounds," but a series of Red-started limited wars in which the Communists might inflict "a kind of piecemeal defeat." In such wars, said Murray, the U.S. would need "great numbers of tactical nuclear weapons of low-kiloton yield. Our security vitally depends on continued progress in perfecting the technology of small weapons, and this progress cannot be assured without tests." Beyond that, Murray attacked the whole basis of a nuclear policy pitched to world opinion in a tough cold war. "Public opinion both in America and abroad," said...
...troops, Monty wrote, were "unreliable when it came to hard fighting"; they "surrendered in droves, headed by the generals carrying their suitcases." Of Italy's midwar switch from the Axis to the Allies: "This looked like the biggest double-cross in history." Italian morale, Monty added, was very low, and "that army would not face up to the Germans...
...intended to soothe. "In my view, the Italian army is, today, as good as any army in NATO . . . Any remarks I made in my memoirs were not intended to reflect in any way on the courage of the Italian soldier. During the late war his morale was low because his heart was not in the Fascist cause; also, he was not too well equipped." At week's end, Italians glowed in the reassurance from their newspapers that they had fought bravely, on both sides...
...reasons, as one official noted, is that, "the supply of females here at the University is naturally low." There are about 500 women enrolled in the various graduate schools (including the totally female School of Nursing). A few of these are undergraduates, but they are emphatically not enrolled in Yale College. It is not unusual, therefore, to see in lectures these feminine students and a variety of wives. Consequently the attendance of a bus load of marooned Smithies in Yale classes a few years ago, unusual, was not 'precedent shattering' as one national magazine stated...
...though in varying degrees of grandeur: well furnished lounges and sitting-rooms, a library, pool table, television set, bar, and dining room. Lunch is served daily, dinner once or twice a week, and even occasional breakfasts in a few of the establishments. The charges for these meals are kept low--under a dollar--so that members can come as frequently as possible. A few of the Clubs offer special fringe benefits: the Gas boasts a private squash court, and the Owl floods its garden in winter to convert it into a seasonal hockey rink...