Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stalin's annihilation of many military commanders . . . beginning literally at the company and battalion commander level and extending to the higher military centers [brought] grievous consequences . . . Large scale repression undermined military discipline because for several years officers of all ranks and even soldiers in the party and Komsomol cells were taught to 'unmask' their superiors as hidden enemies . . . During this time the cadre of leaders who had gained military experience in Spain and in the Far East was almost completely wiped...
...party he attended was held on a yacht and ended only when sea scouts and river police turned up to fish two debonair young Guards officers out of the muddy waters of the Thames. Another reached its climax when some of the duke's young friends decided to scale a perilous parapet and sprinkle innocent passers-by in the street below with champagne...
Last week the secret of the copper scrolls came out. Their subject, announced the French, British and U.S. scholars who have been working on them in the Jordanian section of Jerusalem, was not spiritual at all. They were clues to buried treasure-and on a Fort Knox scale. Two hundred tons of gold and silver-were mentioned as well as a considerable cache of incense in about 60 separate hoards scattered over a 50-mile-long area from Hebron to Mount Gerizim, near Nablus...
...Insecurity Through Global Air Power. Not yet, however, could the . Army break into the open. Still ahead was another conference in Puerto Rico-this time a meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who had been ordered by Dwight Eisenhower to get away from the Pentagon for a full-scale review of U.S. military policy, with special reference to the question of whether the service roles assigned by Key West needed overall revision. The Army planners hoped desperately that Max Taylor could use the Puerto Rico sessions to gain new prestige and position for his service...
...Himalayas of India's Punjab, hunting hardy wild mountain barley for the horses and men of their cavalry, and at home the sport of mountaineering kept abreast of political and military needs. The Japanese alps crawled with amateur climbers. Biggest goal of civilian climbers has always been to scale a major Himalayan peak...