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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...
Rock-climbing is one side of mountaineering; the other side is ice-climbing. HMC members wear "crampons" with two-inch spikes when they're ice-climbing, and carry ice axes to chop zig-zag staircases in glaores. "Glissading" is their name for skiing down a slope without any exis; "glassading" is a similar procedure involving another part of the anatomy...
...public-address system rattled off their progress: "They're approaching Cliffside . . . they're through . . . they're stepping along, folks . . . they're at Shady . . . they're riding the curve . . . good in, good out . . . they're at Zig Zag and they don't stay there long . . . they're riding the finish . . . they're down...
...flyspeck islands. The U.S. wanted to draw a military Equator across that ocean and assert its claim to one-power control of everything north of the line. The military Equator closely follows the geographic, save for a zig to the north to exclude Dutch Morotai, and a zag to the south to take in Australian-mandated Manus. South of this line (in Indonesia and Melanesia) the U.S. would be content with transit privileges for ships and aircraft...