Word: prior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grant permission to marry," it announced, "is delegated to the commanding generals of major commands." Airmen may apply in a "military letter addressed to the immediate commanding officer." Fifteen "supporting documents" must be attached plus affidavits that the courtship "has been of at least six (6) months' duration prior to submission of application...
...Indonesia also took steps to prevent Ambassador Wang's Red seminary from growing any larger. On grounds that the Chinese "willfully ignored" diplomatic courtesy-by establishing a Jakarta consulate general without permission, running in two military attachés without warning, and sending in 16 "diplomatic" personnel without prior notice-the Indonesians refused to let Wang's 16 reinforcements get off the boat...
...also contains many of the standard gibes of European intellectuals-no surprise, since Midwesterner Bromfield himself spent 15 expatriate years in France prior to 1938. The ideas behind Mr. Smith hatched after his return. "I was struck very forcefully," he says, "by things I might not have noticed if I had been living here all that time." Chief among them: "The confusion in the minds of many Americans about the importance of water closets, automobiles, radios, etc. They think they are civilized because they have these. But they actually are a means to an end, not an end itself...
...tenor of your interesting July 9 article on submarines was much too disparaging of our designers and engineers. The strengthhulls of American WW II subs were the equal of any combatant. Maximum submerged speed of all submarines prior to the XXI was about 9 knots. Our radar was superior to that of any combatant, as was our fire control (electromechanical aid in solving the torpedo aiming problem...
...didn't. "I am trying to be a good boy," he said. But he left no doubt that the two top men in Harry Truman's Cabinet-he and Dean Acheson-had differed sharply. Military policy, said Johnson, was "being influenced by the State Department prior to a simon-pure decision by Defense." Their chief differences were over Formosa. "The Defense Department battled day in & day out to keep Formosa out of hostile hands...