Word: might
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supersonic-bomber planning to a maximum of three wings, is phasing out purchases of its F-105 fighter-bomber and F106 interceptor. Last week the Air Force announced plans to shut down Ethan Allen Air Force Base in Vermont. NATO was warned that its tactical air strength in Europe might be cut back by three Air Force F-100 nuclear fighter-bomber wings, or 225 planes. The deployment in Europe of the Thor and Jupiter intermediate-range ballistic-missile squadrons would be cut back by one Thor squadron from eight to seven, leaving four IRBM squadrons in Britain...
...Symington's hopes of emerging as his party's choice in Los Angeles next summer rest largely on his negative assets and the appeal they might have to professional politicians. At 58 (last June), he is neither too young nor too old. As an Episcopalian, he does not have to worry, as Kennedy does, about the widespread conviction that a Roman Catholic cannot be elected President. As a politician who has run for high public office twice and won twice, he does not carry Adlai Stevenson's stigma of past defeats. Though he has voted a straight...
...unscheduled sortie across the Mississippi to Moline, Ill., for a testimonial dinner for Massachusetts, hard-running Senator Jack Kennedy. Asked if this meant an endorsement, Loveless smiled and replied: "You can say that rumor has it so." ¶ In Washington later, Senator Kennedy, having acknowledged privately that he might ultimately find himself Adlai Stevenson's vice-presidential candidate, let the word out that he entertains no vice-presidential ambitions for himself. ¶ Oregon's stormy Senator Wayne Morse, violent anti-Kennedyite and the capital's most accomplished collector of enemies, found a new one in his erstwhile...
Then, with bland audacity, Red China's latest note hinted at a weird bargain: if India would give up a portion of Kashmir around Ladakh, China might stop its border pressure in India's Northeast Frontier Agency, a region lying 850 miles farther to the east between India and Tibet, whose frontier was settled 45 years ago when the so-called McMahon Line was defined. "If Indian troops may cross at will the traditional and customary Sino-Indian boundary in [Ladakh] for so-called patrolling, then Chinese troops would have all the more reason to come...
...week's end Nehru himself was beginning to talk tougher. Thousands cheered as he told a Congress Party rally that, though Red China is full of "the arrogance of might," India will not be intimidated. "China may be a big country, but India is not small," said Nehru. "We are not afraid. We are not weak...