Word: maginot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matter how much money is spent, a complete defense of the U.S. against atomic attack cannot be constructed, and the best way to deal with the threat, according to most military men, is to be ready to hurt the enemy more than he can hurt the U.S. "A Maginot Line on the ground is bad enough," said one Air Force officer last week. "There isn't any line you can hold...
...allies can destroy the Communist armies now facing them if they choose to pay the price in casualties in one or two months instead of spreading them over years. (The siege mentality stresses the fact that the Chinese Reds are well entrenched, but their fortifications can scarcely approach the Maginot line, which has been a joke among military men since...
...readily, some critics think. With more men than Giap, with an abundance of U.S. equipment, with an overwhelming superiority in guns and planes, the French, instead of ranging all over the map as Giap is doing, seem to be handicapped by the bunker-or Maginot-mentality. In the high command there is a conflict of personalities: two four-star generals, Linares and Salan, competing for military advantage. What France badly needs is another De Lattre, one who knows'how to use the material at hand...
...King stepped out of active politics and devoted his time to racing his 20 thoroughbreds, swimming in the palace pool, playing Monopoly with his friends and producing such slapstick comedies as Two Murders in the Maginot Line. As a special treat for visiting VIPs, His Majesty plays one of his own compositions (e.g., Love Without Hope) on the alto sax, accompanied by his private jazzband...
...tried to build a defensive system of 25,000 miles [i.e., containment], we would merely compound the French stupidity [i.e., the Maginot line] 100 times...