Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These men are laborers used by the U.S. armed forces for minor construction work in 1945 on the island of Tinian. Most of them were of Korean descent, transported to the Marianas for use in the sugar-cane fields. I admired their ability to squat all day while shaping the coral for the dwarf wall they were building. Even during their rest period they would hunker, sophisticated style...
Acheson. Two days later, before an applauding group of NATO parliamentarians in Washington, Acheson implied that the Russians are interested principally in survival for Communists. "It is so easy to confuse or to use this word 'negotiation' as a cover for a surrender ... If to negotiate means to put the fagade of consent upon a defeat, then I think it is not something which should recommend itself to us . . . The essential thing is what you confer about-not whether you should confer but what you confer about." And what the U.S. is being asked to confer about...
...services are in better shape than they have been for generations; e.g., most of the Navy's 135,000 active reservists are organized in much-needed anti-submarine warfare units, but hundreds of thousands of dollars are wasted in keeping books on thousands of inactive reservists whose future use to the nation is highly doubtful...
After hours of wrangling between industry lawyers and Government officials, both Flemming and the cranberrymen (who have already given up use of the chemical altogether) agreed to keep on testing samples from cranberry lots. Products found free from taint were to be so labeled (Certified Safe, Examined and Passed), and freed for sale to housewives preparing for Thanksgiving. Obviously, not all of the 70-odd million Ibs. of the holiday batch could be tested in time. Shoppers who could not find certified stocks at their grocers would have to take their chances with untested lots-if indeed the stores...
Sullivan confirmed yesterday the group's plan for use of the Stadium if the tax-exempt status of the land is threatened by rental to a professional organization. His group, he said, would try to contribute a large amount in the University's name to the United Fund or a similar charity and use the Stadium without charge...