Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desire to economize, the desire to keep up with Russia without going into debt or raising taxes. Already Americans for Democratic Action demand a $78 billion to $80 billion budget; contrariwise, penny-saving House Appropriations Committee Chairman Clarence Cannon has harrumphed that "a great many people are going to use national defense as a reason to bolster their requests for bigger appropriations." What will finally come out will be clear only when the countdown ends late this spring...
...power should be invoked only as a last resort. We therefore tend to think of diplomacy and force as successive and separate phases of national policy. Unfortunately, the position in which we find ourselves does not permit such absolute distinctions. In a revolutionary period the ability and willingness to use force may in itself provide a factor of stability. To a world threatened by aggression and infiltration, American strength and resolution are essential if there is to be a guarantee of security...
...masculine Pentagon world, McElroy is a man's man: he can be a two-fisted bourbon drinker, barely manages to suppress a lifelong passion for shooting craps, has a short-fuse temper and can use four-letter language that does not spell TIDE. As Defense Secretary he must walk the tightrope between sufficient defense and national extravagance; McElroy's own nature is such that he could, without batting an eye, decide to spend $30 million for Procter & Gamble to buy Clorox, yet at home in Cincinnati he long kept close personal tabs on the amount of gasoline...
Bender claimed that prohibiting the use of photographs is meaningless, since all applicants are interviewed. He added that "the issue is whether the State is going to infringe upon the proper freedom of institutions to manage their own affairs within...
David Lean's direction is marred only by too slow a pace: the film did not need to run quite so close to three hours. He made brilliant use of the genuine tropical jungle against which the film was made. Scenes of marching men, jungles, hills and rivers are all tremendously effective in their CinemaScopic splendor, and the bridge goes up with a rousing blast. Moreover, every frame is closely bound up with the story: spectacle complements action instead of interfering with...