Word: mahan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the Bulldogs. For Yale, it was the worst defeat in 43 years. Harte, an end, had the honor of scoring the first touchdown against the Elis in the Stadium with a 35-yard dash in the first period. Captain and fullback E. W. Mahan tallied four touchdowns to close out a brilliant career...
Umpires Threadgold and Mahan had barely gotten the situation under control, when Charlie Ravenel was hit by another Fuller pitch. With bat upraised, Ravenel charged after Fuller but stopped half-way to the mound...
Your quotation from Mahan is a paraphrase of a very old proverb, and written in many tongues, namely, that "one sword keeps another in the scabbard." In an evil age, the man who bares the sword is the man who bears the peace...
...nation-at that nation's request-to help it beat out attack or subversion by Communist or other outside powers. In historic testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, the then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Arthur Radford. spelled out the U.S. purpose in Mahan-type precision...
...organized force of a community," wrote the Navy's Mahan, "is and must remain the basis of social order so long as evil exists to be repressed." The admiral and his men might even rerun it into a new definition of the t)ld Navy quip that had loomed so large in the long and notable service of Admiral James Lemuel Holloway. That new definition, which was also a new challenge: Do you fight the cold war the -hard way, i.e., by letting things slide into a shooting war, or the Holloway, i.e., by deploying adequate power to stop...