Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chief need of the armed forces, which total 600,000 men, is equipment: gasoline, ammunition, small arms, artillery and, most of all, spare parts. The Free Chinese air force has good flyers, but most of its 500 planes are worn out. The navy-important in Free China's offshore situation -consists of 100 combat vessels, not more than a third of which are serviceable. Besides spare parts, the.navy's main need is for U.S. technicians: a whole radar complex will fail because one vacuum tube has blown; a U.S. technician could find and fix the trouble...
...Paris, De Lattre ran into opposition from two quarters. Defense Minister Jules Moch said he could not spare officer cadres, pointed to the ten divisions he had promised General Eisenhower for European defense in 1951. General Alphonse Juin, just back from a tour of troubled Morocco, said he needed veteran units in North Africa. But De Lattre had a firm supporter in Jean Letourneau, Minister for the Associated States. Said Letourneau: "We protect France by fighting in Indo-China...
Captain-elect Dusty Burke, another defenseman, was named to the second team as was high-scorer Joe Kittredge. Sophomore Walt Greeley was voted 'a spare. Amory Hubbard tied with Princeton's Hank Bothfeld as outstanding sophomore. Hubbard, Captain Low Preston, and Bob DiBlasio won honorable mention for the all-star team...
Asbestos Heir Tommy Manville, separated from wife No. 8, vowed his next would be "a wise, mature woman, someone like Ava Gardner, or Paulette Goddard." Meanwhile, Manville said he was using his spare time planning a new question & answer television show on the problems of modern living...
...became fascinated by U.S. dialects and folklore, gave up the idea of becoming an actor and went on to Harvard for more study of the U.S. He went back to England for 2½ years (1934-37), then returned to do a general commentary for NBC, worked in his spare time as a string correspondent for the Times of London. By 1941 his Americanization was so complete that he became a citizen. BBC hired him as a U.S. correspondent in World War II, and by 1945 Cooke was so well known that he got a cable "from...