Word: support
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pointing Both Ways. Senator Smith would 1) turn over to a committee of generals and admirals the $75 million appropriated to oppose Communism's spread in China, 2) lend strong support to a Free China movement, 3) never recognize the Communist government of Mao Tse-tung. But chiefly he tried to fix U.S. attention on the island of Formosa, which the Nationalist government regards as its last redoubt...
General Douglas MacArthur reportedly favored some kind of U.S. action to support Formosa, but the Joint Chiefs of Staff seemed convinced that the move was neither an acceptable risk nor practically possible. In fact, if Senator Smith was to get anywhere with his suggestion for action, his first and most difficult task would be to convince the military, which seemed as ready as the diplomats to go on waiting for the dust to settle, no matter what was buried under...
...effect of all this suggested a dangerous possibility: smog would soon be so valuable to the publicity men, radio gag writers and others who now make their living off jokes about Los Angeles' dry river bed and rare snowstorms, that support of antismog ordinances would be regarded as proof of disloyalty to the local way of life. After that it would be only a question of time before Los Angeles began boasting "Bigger Smogs than Pittsburgh" and movie stars took to wearing miners' lamps instead of dark glasses and sunshine was apologetically dismissed as "unusual weather...
...common board. After 200 years of establishing a reputation for poor food, the University abandoned the Commons and let students fend for themselves around the square and in clubs. Agitation for a University-sponsored dining hall soon began and resulted in a voluntary commons at Memorial Hall in 1874. Support of this system finally waned, and in 1923 Memorial Hall was abandoned. Immediately pressure began for a good dining system. This movement ended in the present house system, which has grown into a sprawling $3,000,000 business. Once again, student protest has been rising, attacking the quality of this...
...change in attitude has come because of two reactions to joint instruction. The Radcliffe Dean's Office fears that because of joint instruction Radcliffe will lose its separate identity. To prevent this, it wishes to support separate Radcliffe extra-curricular activities. But since it realizes that girls may not stick with Annex groups if they can join corresponding Harvard organizations, it wishes to prevent the Harvard groups from having Radcliffe members. It also fears that Radcliffe members of Harvard organizations will have a second-class citizen status, and will actually be "used" by the Harvard groups...