Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...willingly would American citizens shoulder the financial obligations of such proposals? The cost of peacetime security in a modern world has become a Sinbad's burden, exhausting and unshakable. The commission's proposals would mean a national outlay amounting to $82.46 per person in fiscal 1949, as much as $122.45 in 1953. In 1801, when the infant U.S. was surrounded by enemies, the levy per person which was considered sufficient for defense amounted to 72? (in days-of-Jefferson values...
...Mediterranean force, which began training exercises off southwestern Greece. The State Department seriously considered shifting Walter Bedell Smith from his job as Ambassador to Moscow to take overall charge of U.S. political, economic and military interests in the eastern Mediterranean area. The Navy announced that it was sending four modern submarines to Turkey. A thousand Marines sailed for the Mediterranean aboard the Navy's Montague and Bexar, both equipped for landing operations. The Marines took with them full combat equipment, including tanks, artillery, jeeps, trucks and flamethrowers. Speculation bubbled: where would the Marines land? Best guess was that they...
...National Defense College is ... an embodiment of the unity of modern self-defense; it is not military alone, not civilian; it is citizen defense...
...offering a few of their hollow titles in the American open market . . . just to see who would leap at the chance to buy one." Columnist Elsa Maxwell reported that Author John Gunther (Inside U.S.A.) had told her he was reading Thucydides' Peloponnesian War "to learn all about modern politics and modern war." Added Elsa: "Maybe I didn't grab my old Thucydides that night...
Charles A. Lindbergh, as durably boyish-looking as any celebrity of modern times, was beginning, at 45, to show signs of wear & tear. Week before in Hong Kong (on airline business, he said), he had asked the press to report practically nothing about him at all; now in Tokyo he forbade photographs; but the press went on working anyway...