Word: pow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cocked trumpet* to his lips and played Gabriel-like tones that sent chills up the listeners' spines. "See, that's a square bend," he explained, pointing to the upswept angle. "Well, I get a sort of square note out of there. When you say 'Pow-w-w,' it comes out like a pounding-like a pounding of bricks...
...goaded into name-calling or personal acrimony. Quietly, doggedly, and with great clarity, he plugged away at explaining the gospel of strategic air power. This gospel held that the long-range bomber, always poised with its devastating atomic load to strike back at an aggressor, is the most pow erful U.S. weapon and the best deterrent...
...fact, he asks as a preliminary to a conference some of the very actions the conference is supposed to discuss. This is a rather stubborn attitude, which disregards the fact that Russia, through its satellites, has made some significant concessions already, such as the acceptance of a Nehru inspired POW exchange...
...John Daniel commanded a destroyer squadron in the Pacific, won the Navy Cross. He came from the first session this week reporting that the Communists were "very objective"-meaning businesslike, and not disposed to stall. At the second session, the U.N. briskly accepted the Red offer to exchange disabled POW's but reiterated its long-standing condition: that none be repatriated against his will...
...ends with a more personalized duel between the hero and four menacing savages. Between the two extremes of the movie Power spends the rest of his time looking sternly at the Indians, refusing to lot them bluff him, and smoking several sacks of Bull Durham in a succession of pow-wows...