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Word: staff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...given by a complex of top officials in Washington. And even beyond Fail Safe point and all the way to bomb-drop point, the war order can be reversed and the aircraft called home. Fail Safe, says Air Force General Nathan Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is foolproof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Safety Catch On the Deterrent | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...reasonable," replied Dwight Eisenhower when a reporter asked about antirecession spending. "Let's try to use some common sense and not just get a Sputnik attitude about everything." All last week the President kept a tight grip on the rule of reasonableness, surprised staff and Congress alike by using it to administer a sharp rap across the knuckles here, a threat there, to keep politically fired recession fears from getting out of bounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Don't Sputnik | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...single Chief of Staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Floodgates Opened | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...Prussian staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Floodgates Opened | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...edge. Within twelve hours, the rebel defenders were in flight along the road to Bukittinggi, 58 miles away, and Padang was firmly in the control of Djakarta's Colonel Achmad Jani, who had learned his lessons well at the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Flickering Out | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

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