Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operational control of all Army ack-ack and missile battalions, Navy patrol squadrons and radar picket ships, Marine Corps and Air National Guard fighter outfits assigned to air defense. The rechristened Continental Air Defense Command became an independent force reporting directly to the Joint Chiefs, who spelled out its mission in seven words: "Defend the United States against air attack...
Ferrets & Dew. Soviet ferret raids have already felt out North America's defenses. U.S. jets on radar alert, scrambling from bases in Alaska and elsewhere, have repeatedly spotted distant Red reconnaissance planes. The Russians' mission: to try out the radar screen, draw out interceptors, chart and time defense reactions...
...should not be lulled into the abandonment of our means of defense. The German peoples have before now been the bastion of Western civilization which deterred its destruction by the Asiatic hordes. My prayer is Germany may be given the unity and freedom which will restore her to that mission in the world...
...Hollywood's version of Mission to Moscow, the purge trial prosecutor has a black beard, black, beetling eyebrows and a wolfish snarl. When the film got a private screening in the Kremlin in 1943, the real prosecutor at those strange and gloomy assizes, a clean-shaven man with white hair and a pink face, almost collapsed with laughter-laughter directed not only against the movie but against the popular cliche of that day that a Russian Bolshevik was a man with a black beard and a bomb in his hand. If, twelve years later, the popular conception...
John Singer Sargent painted Mrs. Jack again and again, helped give her an intimate appreciation of art. In middle age she sponsored a curlylocked student named Bernard Berenson, saw him through Harvard and off to Italy, and entrusted him with a proud mission: to help build a first-rate collection of old masters. (He stayed on in Florence to become the world's foremost authority on Renaissance art.) At the turn of the century, Mrs. Jack started construction of an Italian palace in the marshes on the outskirts of Boston. Already in her 60s, she joined workmen...