Word: zagging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such matters accused President Truman of wavering and inconsistency on Korean policy. Coming from Robert Taft, the charge was doubly ironic. The Administration's policy of limiting the Korean war has been consistent from the beginning; Taft's record for the same period is a shameful mixture of zig-zag reasoning and equivocation. When ex-President Hoover announced his "Western Gibraltar" policy last January, Republican Policy Chairman Taft was quick to join him under the bed. Taft opposed the appointment of General Eisenhower; he also backed the Wherry "manifesto" against sending troops to Europe because the presence of American soldiers...
...Army Base runs its physicals through a maze of zig-zag cloth screens, numbered into stations. Station Number One included a chair, a plain table, and a doctor who held a slit lamp and a tongue depressor. "Open your mouth," said the doctor. "Head up. Turn it left. Turn it right. Now let me look at those cars." He clicked on the light. "Ah, very interesting." The doctor checked off more spaces on the mimeographed sheet and smiled. "Station Two," he said...