Word: soled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unifying the armed forces at the beginning of last fall, when the Joint Chiefs of Staff hashed out the wartime tasks of their respective services. The major argument centered around strategic bombing--including the employment of the atomic bomb--with the Navy disputing the Air Force's claim to sole jurisdiction. After considerable bargaining, instituted by the late Defense Secretary James Forrestal, the rival services compromised: the Air Force picked up a fat budget, the Navy the 65,000 ton aircraft carrier "United States." This decision, coupled with a pair of high-level directives forbidding public inter-service squabbles...
This book is not a technical treatise. It should fascinate anyone interested in criminal law or psychiatry, or both. The sole flaw in the book is Dr. Wertham's habit of self-congratulation. His own treatments and diagnoses are always correct, those of his colleagues are usually wrong or incompetent, and if the judge had listened to him everything would have turned out all right. The reader is left with the picture of the author battling alone against the forces of stupidity, as represented by judicial and medical quacks. This is purely a personal flaw, though; Dr. Wertham's style...
...your second statement, what is especially incorrect about it is that it suggests I want to invent a "new" morality. On the contrary, it is the old morality, the morality of Jesus Christ, that I believe is the sole possible salvation of the world. But I think that it can be given a basis in the laws of human personality...
...loss was the Crimson's first in Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League play and leaves Dartmouth in sole possession of first place...
...found the American people warmhearted, aware of their responsibilities and impatient of injustice, he said. Another virtue: "The Americans have something which is missing in England today-beautiful manners." Sir Osbert even had a gaudy tribute for New York, "the most beautiful and inspiring of modern creations, the sole heir to Alexandria, Constantinople and Venice." In Pittsburgh, whose smoke she spoofs in her show, Inside U.S.A., Beatrice Lillie (Lady Peel) accepted a nosegay of white roses from Mayor David L. Lawrence, accompanied him to a mountain top for a clear view of the city. ("Fortunately," reported the Pittsburgh Press...