Word: select
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long as Soviet and Chinese Communist leaders can pick the time, place and method of aggression anywhere in Asia," said Dulles, "and so long as we only rush ground troops to meet it at the time they select, at the place they select, and with the weapons they select, we are at a disadvantage which can be fatal. On the other hand, the free world possesses, particularly in sea and air power, the capacity to hit an aggressor where it hurts, and at times and places of our own choosing...
...Attack. When too many unnamed children accumulate in a village, the conscience-stricken grownups must do something about it, to wit, launch a headhunting raid. With solemn care and deliberation, the warriors and elders work out a plan of campaign. Scouts are sent into the interior to select a victim-village. They explore its approaches, creep close to its huts, study the habits of its people. They try to eavesdrop on conversations to learn their victims' names...
Residing in three select houses, this polyglot community boasts representatives from Java, India, and Egypt, Mass. But a rigid caste system enforced by strict segregation bars intermingling among those of different ancestry and background...
Under Furcolo's most recent bill, which is basically the name as the Ewing proposal, the government would give $800 Scholarships for students "scholastically qualified and financially needy." Under both proposals, the state would select scholarship students...
...statement that a picture in the article was faked is incorrect. "It was taken," said Skinner, "to illustrate the statement that dogs have the pattern discrimination needed to select a particular card from a deck. No claim was made that we had actually done this experiment for the 'Look' photographer...