Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...probable effectiveness-or the economy-of a tactical strike by strategic bombers against an area which might or might not be occupied by enemy troops. "It's just the chance that it might help," he told newsmen. "It's going to be beyond the scope of our book, but we're trying...
...Today we face most acutely the threat of the Communist movement, international in scope, directed from a central source and committed to the overthrow of democratic institutions throughout the world," the President's message said. "The good sense of the American people [has] utterly rejected the false political appeal of Communism . . . The real dangers . . . come . . . from espionage, sabotage and the building up of an organization dedicated to the destruction of our Government by violent means...
...scope and in detail the stern demands of the nation's preparation for war -in Korea and whatever lay beyond-were rapidly becoming clear. Leaders of both parties, united in the nation's determination to meet the aggressions of the U.S.S.R. and its satellites, were also in overall agreement on the things that had to be done. Where there were differences they lay in the area of ways & means...
...Chinese Communist armies crossed the Yangtze and drove south across prostrate China. Said TIME: "Most Americans still do not realize the scope of MacArthur's task in Japan. But one fact is driving itself home: while the U.S. labors on the dam that contains Communism in Europe, the Red tide has risen mightily in Asia and now threatens to engulf half the world's people. In all Asia, tiny, beaten Japan is the one place where the U.S. still has a firm foothold, where it still has a chance to redeem the West's sorry record...
...hunt was to be princely in scale, continental in scope. It would start near the Mexican border in the spring of 1921 and continue right on up through the Rockies into Alaska, fanning out wherever the game ran thickest...