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Taylor fitted the 1,500-mile missile into an overall concept: we seek "to increase the deterrent power of America's military might so as to restrain war in all its forms." At week's end Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson reported to the Senate Armed Services Committee his service-by-service budget breakdown...
Bottled-up emotions seem to be the most common personality trait of hypertensive people. More women than men suffer from the disorder. Although often gentle and apparently easygoing, they are filled with aggressive drives that they tightly restrain because of a need to please. Inwardly tense and suspicious, they are "mobilized for combat, but do not engage in it against the pertinent adversary." Many of them suffer from migraine headaches and other side symptoms. As children, they were frustrated...
...birth, death and all the calamities in between are common daily experience. College volunteers provide the entire supply of non-trained orderlies for the Accident Room where almost every emergency case in Cambridge is treated. The 20 College students who contribute a weekly, three-hour stint do clerical work, restrain violent patients, assist at emergency births and X-rays, comfort the sick and injured while they await treatment, and wheel off the dead to the morgue. Cambridge City Volunteers probably see more of "a real slice of life" than anyone else not formally connected with the medical profession...
...good that you American students come here to learn about our great Kultur and so about your own mistakes. Perhaps you can help mature the naive minds of your countrymen. Since you are the strong today, it is very important that the wisdom of Europe, of Germany restrain you from your naive and impulsive policies...
Going Without. In such a situation, Butler had a clear-cut choice. He could aim his budget either at mightily increasing production (enabling supply to catch up with demand), or at limiting consumption. Butler's disappointing decision was "to restrain demand...