Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief argument for recognition of the Chinese Communists is not that non-recognition would make Mao Tze-tung "completely dependent on, and subservient to, Moscow," for Russia will not provide capital goods and technical skill to the Chinese Reds "whether it can spare them or not." Russia can ill afford to export these items, and is not likely to do so just because the Chinese Communists would like very much to have them. Non-recognition by the U.S. would merely make industrialization unfeasible in China. China in that case would neither starve nor collapse nor become Russia's puppet, though...
...most urgent problem facing China's Reds is industrialization, for which they need machines and technical skill. Russia will be willing to provide these, whether it can spare them or not, and if the United States cuts off all communication with China, Mao will become completely dependent on, and subservient to Moscow...
...avoided, alliances made, pledges kept; For bulging corncribs and busy assembly lines; for U.S. skill, industry and inventiveness, multiplying the native plenty...
Today The Father, in addition to its pathological excesses, wears a period air. Yet on a watered-down Broadway, a play that is all scorch and bite is worth reviving. Unhappily, last week's revival was more in the nature of a coffin nail. It lacked skill, perception and tension: at its best it could only serve up gall and wormwood as a kind of sizzling platter. As the wife, Mady Christians did, at any rate, sizzle now & then. As the husband, Raymond Massey merely spouted, as if announcing all the terrible things that did not seem...
...volumes) that he has bitten off. To judge from the first five, Morison's history may well be the permanent hull which future workmen will occasionally caulk but never have to dismantle. Because "he has had full access to captured enemy documents and has used them with imaginative skill as well as care, his accounts of battle action have a quality of two-sidedness which dissolves crude jingoism. In Coral Sea and Guadalcanal, as in his three earlier books (Battle of the Atlantic, North African Waters, Rising Sun in the Pacific), readers will be aware every minute that...