Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the week began, the Senate had just six days to act before the expiration of the Defense Production Act. A bill before the Senate, reported out by its Banking & Currency Committee, would renew most of the President's economic controls but strip away his crucial power to roll back prices, including the price of meat. A handful of Fair Dealing Democrats and like-minded Republicans fought to put back rollbacks...
...face of the closed ranks of the free nations, he said, the Soviet Union's "great objective is to strip us of our allies . . . Unfortunately, there are some people in this country, too, who have been trying to get us to 'go it alone...
Phase Four (the present phase) was limited in a relatively shallow strip of territory, most of it below the 38th parallel, in which the fighting surged back & forth. The Chinese launched a new offensive which came in two hard punches. The U.N. armies moved slightly with the punch, but by now they were hardened, battlewise, and well enough equipped to be able to take it-and to dish it out. Overwhelming superiority of U.N. air power and artillery, used with generally high U.N. morale, inflicted huge casualties on the Chinese, may have broken much of their will to win back...
...capability of imposing a pax Americana upon the world. More important, we have not the desire. Our motive is neither to impose our will upon the world, nor to turn our backs upon it and retreat to our own frontiers. Either course would be folly. Either course would strip us of friends and allies at the moment in American history when, more than any other, we need friends and allies. Our aim is to keep the free world big. There are practical and hardheaded reasons for this. Nearly twice as many people inhabit non-Soviet Europe as inhabit the United...
...special Pan American Constellation carried Marshall to Tokyo's Haneda airport, where he joined General Matthew B. Ridgway. They took a waiting C-54 and roared off to a forward area landing strip in Korea. Within minutes, eleven light planes had joined it-like rooks gliding in for a fence-rail convention. Almost all the brass in Korea, from the Eighth Army's Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet to commanders of the allied detachments fighting in Korea, had been summoned. In Washington, Dean Acheson said that he didn't know that the Defense Secretary had left...