Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shells in a bombardment that had so little military meaning that U.S. observers conclude it must have been aimed at U.S. voters on the eve of the congressional elections of Nov. 4. Red China announced its weird off-day ceasefire, also announced the replacement of Red Army Chief of Staff...
...belief was that with only 34 Republicans in the Senate of the 86th Congress, he should seek unity at all costs-and he thought that kind of unity could be best achieved under the Old Guard leadership, even though it has steadfastly opposed him. So the White House staff went into action. Items...
...switchover: without TV, the college would have to hire more new teachers, instead hopes to save $60,000 in salaries by June. And with TV, Compton expects to handle a 100% enrollment increase in the next decade with a boost of only about 30% in its 90-member staff. Said one official: "We figure that saving the costs of 60 bodies is well worth it." Compton plans to build a TV wing, with six windowless, air-conditioned classrooms...
...death in suicide attacks. After war's end lifted their censorship, the Japanese joined in the controversy, took potshots at their own side with charges that recently drafted civilians had been sent out as Kamikaze flyers to save the professionals. Authors Inoguchi and Nakajima know better. They were staff officers in the Imperial Navy's First Air Fleet under Vice Admiral Takijiro Onishi, who organized the first avowedly suicidal attacks. From the pilots' last letters home, the authors draw their most revealing and convincing testimony to the Kamikaze flyers' eagerness...
...toward fulfilling the Japanese authors' hope of disclosing what was going on in the minds of the Kamikaze men-among them Admiral Onishi. With Japan's decision to surrender, marking the failure of his divine wind, he committed harakiri. At its organization, Onishi had presented the Kamikaze staff with a launching poem...