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...past week's exhibition should be the nadir of irresponsibly. But only by using his Party leadership can Eisenhower guarantee that the Constitution will be distorted no more, that the responsible behavior will return to cabinet and Congressional committees...
...Staff Dwight D. Eisenhower) to whittle the Marines down to units of regimental size. It had hotly argued with critics who maintained that the A-bomb put its amphibious specialty out of business. And finally, amid the Korean emergency, it had won the right to rebuild from its postwar nadir of 67,000 to a ceiling of 400,000 men, organized in three divisions and three Marine air wings...
Like all analogies, this one can be carried only so far as the willingness of the rich to pay taxes, which reaches a nadir about this time every year. But it is something for the Congressional axe-brandishers to consider as they chop away at foreign aid while their eyes are fastened on the election stump. While there is no police power to force them to pay the taxes of the free world, the threats of outside conquest and inner deterioration are far more pressing in the international case than in the domestic...
Christmas dinner in the French strongholds. The French commanders themselves had given up hope of victory. At this nadir, De Lattre was sent from France. Within weeks he worked a change of spirit, and reversed the tide of war. Frenchmen could only compare it to the miracle of the Marne...
...injuries which have plagued Norm Shepard's boys this season and which reached a nadir last night, when three out of the original five starters were unable to play, should be half mended by the time the squad takes to the road...