Word: stiffeners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Appeasement. Mr. Hoover was convinced that the U.S. should get out of Korea, should stiffen its hold on Formosa and the Philippines and give the Japanese independence and arms for defense. It should cut off Western European allies without another dollar or U.S. soldier until they organize and equip combat divisions "of such large numbers as would erect a sure dam against the Red flood...
...congressional order to stiffen port security operations (in coordination with U.S. Customs officials), by searching and controlling movements of all foreign ships entering U.S. ports, and looking particularly for "Trojan ships" which might try to smuggle atomic bombs or bacteriological weapons into the country...
...five judges varied widely in rating Button's performance, two of them giving aim considerably lower scores than expected. The champion's leg muscles seemed to stiffen after he had completed three of the required six intricate figures in the compulsory section, slowing him down in the rest of the meet. Button explained that he had taken an examination on Wednesday and had had considerably difficulty sleeping on the train that night...
...tarried in Hong Kong for two weeks, then came to the U.S. for an operation, bringing his family with him. Under Chiang, meanwhile, the Nationalists' resistance seemed to stiffen. The Chinese air force and navy set up a surprisingly vigorous blockade of the Communist mainland. Nationalist troops on Formosa began training in earnest under capable...
...President had made it bitingly clear (TIME, Jan. 2) that this was the time and the hour finally to weld a coherent foreign-policy program for Asia. It fell to grey, soldierly Omar Bradley to report, in grey, soldierly words, the J.C.S. decision of the preceding week to stiffen the defense of Formosa, Nationalist China's island stronghold, with a small U.S. military mission. As General Bradley droned on, he knew he was outlining a Pentagon reversal of the State Department's flaccid policy of waiting for something to turn up in Asia. No professional...