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...will be a losing fight, ultimately, and it will not take place exclusively in the roadhouses. There have already been skirmishes up in the loftier precincts, where a well-turned antique compliment (Dr. Johnson to Boswell: "Men know that women are an overmatch for them") now sounds more like a neat way of undercutting a woman with awe. James Thurber, invited to talk to the graduating class of Mount Holyoke College in 1949 ("The idea of addressing the flower of American womanhood would terrify me even if I could see"), declined by invoking a story about a World...
...m.p.h. "Why should they have everything?" Donald exploded. "By God, they won't have that record!" So Campbell, who by his own admission had "never traveled at more than 70 m.p.h. on the water and not much more on land," set out at 28 to fight his overmatch with speed...
Dragging Feet. On paper, the nations of non-Communist Europe could overmatch the basic resources of Communist Europe. On each side of the Iron Curtain live about 250 million people. The Europeans to the west of the Curtain possess greatly superior technical know-how and industrial capacity. They can, for instance, make 50 million tons of steel a year against the 28 million-ton capacity of Russia and its satellites. Yet if West Germany's 50 million people and 15 million-ton steel capacity should pass into Red control, preponderance would pass to the Reds. Even with the German...
...This is neither an old man's war nor a young man's war. It is smart man's war," Nelson says. "Our enemies have made it so. They have made it essential that we do not underestimate them, that we not only match and overmatch them in the weapons of war, but also in the smartness and resourcefulness which we apply to all phases of the conflict...