Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Battle Planners. Girding for battle, the Army seized upon its "Policy Coordinating Group" as an equivalent to the Navy's famed Op-23, which masterminded the 1949 Revolt of the Admirals. Already moved directly under Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor from its place as a semidetached study unit, the group was soon well staffed with young colonels under Brigadier General L. C. Metheny, 49, a cool, sharp planner. Metheny & Co. began setting up the Army line with a long series of staff studies, transmitted first to the Army general staff and later to the field commanders. Liaison was established...
...complete defense against bombers). But LeMay and Partridge are commanders with specific and therefore limited functions in a vast military machine. And it is the duty of Commander in Chief Dwight D. Eisenhower to ensure that the machine-in all its countless parts-adds up to a single unit meshed for a sole purpose: to keep war away by its total retaliatory power...
...sharp rebuff in his own backyard, but with the Texas delegation bound by the unit rule and Johnson moderates outnumbering liberal delegates two to one, Lyndon was still the man in the Texas saddle, still one of the most potent Democrats in the pre-Chicago picture. What Frankie Randolph's election meant was that in his future practice of moderation, Lyndon Johnson will have a beady eye looking over his left (liberal) shoulder...
...sent dental students to the Medical School for basic science in struction because 1) it is better there than it was at the old Dental School and 2) it makes the dentist aware that he is dealing with a part of medicine and of the human body, not a unit in itself. Furthermore, the new School of Dental Medicine was to emphasize research as a means to preventive dentistry. Theory was to become of much more importance in the training of a practicing dentist...
...mine a flame-throwing tank, and whose head "burned like a match." In the book's most telling episode, a captain goes mad when he is compelled to execute as a deserter a stunned and muddled laggard sergeant major who is trying to get back to his unit. Author Ledig, a twice-wounded veteran of the Russian front, has given his royalties from this painful book to an orphanage for war victims. Readers can deduce this compassion from his apparently brutal narrative; what is at work here is not the notorious German talent for self-pity. Men-Russian...