Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep his mind off the piled-up papers and problems waiting for him back at the office. But toward the end of the 34-minute session, a question about defense policy sparked the President into a strong-voiced exposition of his thinking. Asked a reporter: Does the decision to stretch out NATO's defense build-up "represent a change in policy from the time that you were in command of NATO forces?" Replied the President, thumping the desk: There must be constant review of build-up plans. To defend themselves, nations must make a living, and the problem...
Creaking Economies. What was "fresh" was not the point of view but the U.S.'s acceptance of it. For the four years of NATO's muscle-stretching, budget-straining effort to throw up a defense against Soviet might, the allies' diplomatic and military experts worked on the "crash" theory of buildup-the policy of amassing the greatest possible strength in the shortest possible time, on the assumption that the year of crisis with Russia, "the year of maximum exposure," was near at hand. (In 1948 the hypothetical year of crisis...
Manhattan court reporters saw a familiar face: Gambler Frank Costello, returned from Milan, Mich., where he is serving an 18-month stretch for contempt of Congress, to face a federal charge of evading $73,000 in income taxes. From Costello, prison-pale and some 30 Ibs. lighter, the reporters heard a familiar croak: "Not guilty...
This, gentlemen, was plainly and simply coercion. It was interference on the part of College authorities in a matter which was absolutely student choice and by no stretch of one's imagination did it call for such action. If the Harvard man did not wish to attend the Big Dance, that was his business and it should have remained such. Most definitely, he should not have been penalized for non-conformance...
...itself was ordered to stretch out its J47 production. The Air Force explained that the J-47, used in Boeing's B-47 medium bombers and North American's F-86 Sabre jet fighters, can now be operated twice as long as had been previously anticipated, without major overhauls...