Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Normally, inter-House shifting is taboo, and Wigg and Claverly offer but a minimum of relief (and Wigg will be all-freshman next year anyway). Moving to any new House also offers a tactful excuse for leaving present roommates and escaping tensions. "There's always a push and a pull in these moves," Riesman hays, "and the roommate situation may well be either...
Nonetheless, the Crimson should win these two games, as both opponents have not managed to score a victory. John Foker, who will replace McClellan, has come along rapidly in the past two outings, and will probably be able to pull down a good number of rebounds...
...seen the military prototype of a nuclear-powered plane flying over Moscow. For its part, the Pentagon was 1) skeptical that the Russians were already flying a nuclear plane, 2) well braced to ride out the propaganda storm if the Russians do fly the first A-plane and pull off some stunt such as circling the globe nonstop. Reason: While the U.S. is spending about $100 million a year in a slow development of the twelve-year-old nuclear plane program, planners have made a command decision that a nuclear plane in the present state...
Fairbank criticized the Administration for failing to take a stand on the issue of self-determination for the Formosans, and predicted that "the pull of the mainland will eventually be a very powerful one." If China continues to expand industrially and increase its national power, he said, "it will become too hot for us to hang on to Taiwan in the future...
...brothers supported the Berlin airlift and U.S. entry into the Korean war, but when Red China intervened in Korea, they urged that the U.S. pull back, suggested that Korea might be "strategically futile," feared that a major effort there would leave Europe exposed. They stood against U.S. intervention in Indo-China in 1954, and this year opposed U.S. action in Lebanon: "The whole Arab world [will be] inflamed against us." Their present position on Berlin is discursive, but on the side of the West's remaining in West Berlin...