Word: task
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hitting Arleigh Burke was always a handy man to have around in a fight. In the South Pacific campaign he won the nickname "31-Knot Burke" from the speed with which he pushed his destroyer squadron into action. He became chief of staff in Marc Mitscher's mighty Task Force 58, won a chestful of medals, was promoted to the temporary rank of commodore. When the Navy's own war against the Air Force and the Defense Department broke out, Burke was assigned to head "Op-23," a compact and more or less secret Navy Department task force...
...thread a way through the evasions and admissions of the State Department's shaky 1,054-page white paper on China, turned out a report that put the best face on the U.S.'s weak and vacillating policy in Asia. Then he turned to an even tougher task. As head of a three-man committee, he set to auditing the entire U.S. Far Eastern policy...
...week, in the red-and-gold pendopo (pavilion) of the Sultan of Jogjakarta, Soekarno formally took his oath of office on the Koran (which according to Moslem custom was held against the back of his head). "Brothers, brothers," he cried in his inaugural address, "I pray for strength. Our task now is to fill that vacuum called freedom . . . Now we must heal the wounds and wipe off the blood...
...reason for the wide difference between the nation's best and the nation's average, said Dr. Moyer, lies in the difficulty of the operation. It takes a highly skilled surgical team to perform this difficult task, and there are few such teams available. To train 100 specialized teams, Dr. Moyer conceded, would be an immense job. But it might save 30,000 to 38,000 stomach cancer victims each year...
Enormous sums have been appropriated for the task, and anyone working with private information outfits can only be appalled at the extravagance of the operation. The State Department supports Information Centers throughout Germany and Austria, most of which have large libraries of books on American subjects. Periodically they send out truck loads of American books for distribution to smaller towns. Picture displays on the U.S., American teachers, artists, musicians, and lecturers tour the Centers. Last summer the Walden String Quartet, the Yale Glee Club, and Town Meeting of the Air were some of the performers...