Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plainclothesmen strode last week into Cairo's Metropolitan Hotel, rapped on Correspondent William (Steve) Stevenson's door and gave the Toronto Star's 33-year-old roving newsman 24 hours to get out of Egypt. Also expelled for spreading "falsehoods and fabrications to mislead public opinion": the London Evening Standard's pretty Anne Sharpley, 26, and the London Daily Mail's fortyish Eileen Travis, a U.S. citizen. That made a total of five correspondents sent packing since Egypt seized the Suez Canal...
...being I consider it unsuitable to shift the center of gravity to atomic weapons." His reasoning: what happened in Korea might happen in Germany, and to counter an East German invasion of West Germany with nuclear weapons would almost certainly "trigger an intercontinental rocket war. I am of the opinion that it is of special importance to localize small conflicts, and for this we need divisions with conventional weapons...
...described by Lieut. Colonel Joseph D. Goldstein, sets up a priority system that automatically gives preference to the wounded who can be returned to duty rather than to those who are closest to death. If the concept is coldblooded, it is also necessary, in the military's opinion. It is based on the assumption that there will never be enough medical personnel on the nuclear battlefronts to cope with the wounded and that even in rear areas doctors and drugs will be in desperately short supply. Accordingly, all wounded, aside from those requiring only medical-aid-station treatment, will...
...recent decades has in fact been the Wilsonian do-nothing attitude disguised in rhetoric. In any case, the reader may well feel that the last and best word on 1917 was spoken by Philip Jordan, the old Negro valet of Ambassador David Francis, whom no one asked for an opinion. Phil Jordan wrote home to Mrs. Francis: "It is something awful...
...talks were resumed some weeks later. Today Nasser still plays the role of youthful amateur, frank and quickwitted in private conversation, making his sharper points with a disarming, schoolboyish grin. It is one of his most winning techniques. But in fact, Gamal Abdel Nasser has acquired a new opinion of himself...