Word: unsound
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...Eastern policy which has led to the present crisis. He was editor of the China white paper . . . He participated in the unfortunate events which led to the summary dismissal of General MacArthur. He is the symbol of a group attitude toward Asia which seems to have been proven completely unsound. This is not a case of mere difference of opinion. This is an issue that may well involve the future of Asia and the world." On this ground, Smith concluded, he would vote to reject Jessup's nomination. It was, he admitted, "the most difficult vote" in his seven...
...phoned Alexander from Washington that "the Democratic National Committee is interested in this loan." Another was James Finnegan, St. Louis Collector of Internal Revenue and crony of the President. Finnegan added his pleas. Finnegan would generally agree with Alexander that some of Lithofold's business practices were unsound (as Alexander recalled it), "but he would invariably ask, at each meeting, 'How's the loan coming, Charlie...
Freshman advising at the College is not basically unsound concludes the Student Council committee which will submit its report at the Council's last meeting of the year tonight. The three-man committee does, however, make seven suggestions for the Council's approval...
Communism although an unsound philosophy, "is right in the respect that it believes the world can be changed," Dr. Nels S. F. Ferre said last night in the thirds of a series of lectures on "Meaning Confronts Chaos...
...Look, battle-worn Correspondent Bigart flatly blamed MacArthur for the "unsound deployment of the United Nations forces and a momentous blunder." He shed an editorial tear for the "great tragedy that a man who served his country so nobly should be hounded and disparaged in the final hours of his career. But that," Bigart added, "is one of the occupational hazards of being a general. MacArthur grossly miscalculated . . . the forces against him. And no nation in the spot we are now in can string along with a leader whose ill-considered decision to launch the offensive of November 24 precipitated...