Word: might
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lose our perspective," Vandenberg urged. "The objective is . . . defense for the common cause, this common cause, among other things, being the defense of the United States." Old Tom Connally, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, explained: "The North Atlantic Treaty and the military-assistance program are designed to combine might with right...
...social circles" which the Washington news had caused. Tass suggested that the West had, just possibly, been fooled. "In the Soviet Union . . . building work on a large scale is in progress-hydroelectric stations, mines, canals, roads-which evokes the necessity of large-scale blasting . . . It is possible that this might draw attention beyond the confines of the Soviet Union." As for atomic energy, added Tass casually, Vyacheslav Molotov had announced back in 1947, when he was still Foreign Minister, that Russia had mastered its secret...
...Europe's people into clamoring for appeasement of Communism, but the West itself stood to gain more: a new clarity of common purpose. The atom bomb in Russian hands was something so ominously specific that it was almost certain to impel a brand of Western unity which otherwise might be years in the forging. Plain common peril might be translated into plain common courage. Moscow's atom-smashing made obsolete no major part of a political strategy that embraced the Atlantic pact, U.S. military aid to Europe, and restoration of Europe's economic health...
British officialdom was ready with instructions to cope with any emergency that might arise from the conflict. In the case of seaborne invasion, the British Museum had issued a neat booklet telling Britons what to do if they should find a whale on their beach. The prescribed procedure was simple: fill out a form (N.H.M. Form 136 tidily enclosed in the booklet), and mail it to the Keeper of Zoology. Question No. 1 on the form read: "Is the tail horizontal?" Since all whales have horizontal tails, the questionnaire continued sensibly: "If the answer to this question...
...Kremlin could visualize that kind of military thinking going on in Washington, Russia's masters might be even happier over their progress in China than they are right...