Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country home Chequers for a midnight talk. Next morning Churchill called Britain's top military men to an emergency Cabinet meeting-the first time the Cabinet has been summoned on a Sunday in nearly seven years. The Cabinet made the reluctant decision that they could not send either troops or planes to help the harassed French...
Three economic experts from the Graduate School of Public Administration are now on their way to Pakistan to serve as assistants to that nation's Government Planning Board. The Public Administration School will send five more consultants before June...
...present, the Navy considers four years of R.O.T.C. enough training to fit a man for duty. But the Army trains its R.O.T.C. second lieutenants in its own schools for at least three months after graduation; the Air Force must still send its R.O.T.C. graduates through long months of flight school before it can qualify them as military pilots. So far the program has failed to persuade as many college students as the armed forces had hoped for to make the service a lifetime occupation. But as a recruiting agency, R.O.T.C. has paid off. It is filling the armed services...
...deliberately prosaic; he seems to echo the horror-logged, death-haunted work of Edgar Allan Poe. Bloom's Slaughtered Animal (overleaf), part of a retrospective exhibition at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, led one dowager to complain that "When I want raw meat, I'll send my chauffeur to the butcher...
...soft spoken man who oversees the job in a pin striped suit and vest, was born and raised in Cambridge. Eight years ago he was one of a group that inaugurated the night sweeping plan. Since then, he has been coming down to the Yard on Hampshire Street to send the men out and keep track of their progress. There is a kind of camaraderie between the boss and the driving trio; they think he is a good boss and Coveney thinks the world of them. "If by some miracle," he said, beaming on a departing sweeper, "I should ever...