Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Developing this argument, Bob Taft could not resist a sideswipe at his No. i fellow aspirant for the G.O.P. nomination. "A steady deterioration in our comparative air power," he observed, "began while General Eisenhower was Chief of Staff." Then he lunged again at the Democratic Administration. It was dominated, he held, by two obsessions...
Then, completely on his own, Vinson lumbered into an extraordinary proposition. Said he: the United Nations Charter and the North Atlantic Treaty bind the U.S. to resist armed attack against any member nation. Hence, "our treaties represent not merely,legal obligations, but show congressional recognition that mutual security for the free world is the best security against the threat of aggression on a global scale." His implication: the President's seizure was justified because the international obligations of the U.S. require a maximum flow of steel for its own defense and for its allies...
...Eighth Army kept the physical details of its nose-counting under wraps, but somehow or other it emerged with 59,000 North Korean and Chinese prisoners who would not "forcibly resist" repatriation. By scraping around among dissident South Koreans, it raised the number of those willing to go north to 70,000. When this number was passed on to the U.N. truce negotiators, they were stunned. They had already (and unwisely) given Nam Il & Co. a much higher estimate; they knew the Reds would not accept the 70,000 figure. The U.N. negotiators reportedly asked Matt Ridgway for a rescreening...
Another strategic metal which has been in great shortage is cobalt, vital for hardening jet engines to resist intense heat. Last week the ingenuity of U.S. industry promised to boost the supply of cobalt 40% by 1953. Source of the promise: a new chemical refining process developed by American Cyanamid Co., fourth biggest U.S. chemical company...
Both Dominions, Griswold concluded, realize that they must now look more and more toward the United States since their populations are too small to resist pressures which may come from the north