Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Front-line soldiers have long argued that the Army could stop worrying about its manpower reserves if it just cashed in a few of its rear-echelon goldbricks. Last week Army Secretary Frank Pace, an ex-major in the Air Transport Command, came to the same conclusion. On his orders to squeeze every available combat soldier out of the 1,300,000 men in uniform, the Army told all units to cut their nonfighting personnel by a flat...
...Pace estimated that his order would sweep some 20,000 noncombatant troops into combat "spaces." He hoped to produce another 20,000 fighting men by hiring civilians to take over clerical and quartermaster jobs in Army camps, the equivalent of 20,000 more when Congress extends the service of draftees. Out of the total of 60,000 men released from rear-area jobs and the training pipeline, Pentagon planners hope to get two extra fighting divisions, bringing the Army's combat strength to 20 divisions, plus 18 regimental combat teams. Counting the hundreds of separate battalions (antiaircraft, field artillery...
Doffing their parkas in the warm midday sun, marines moved carefully toward the town. On the west, the tanks of the ist Cavalry Division kept pace with and sometimes outsped the leathernecks. The cavalrymen flanked Hongchon on the west, and the marines hauled up for the night a short distance south. The town was quiet...
...Christians under one roof." It is the movement, as one of its leaders put it, from "the Church-as-men-have-conceived-it toward the Church-as-God-intended-it." The ecumenical movement does not proceed like a crusade, with banners and trumpet calls. It has grown with the pace and persistence of natural things-quietly, slowly, following Knes of flow and least resistance, taking opposition points by envelopment rather than frontal assault...
Monro noted that most scholarship applicants come from families that live on white collar salaries, the "stickiest" form of income. Annual earnings in this bracket, about $4000 per year, according to Financial Aid Center's statistics, will not keep pace with the rising national price index...