Word: foes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Earl ("Red") Blaik spends four hours at the planning tables for every hour on the practice field, organization reaches a precise, military perfection. Squads of specialists, drilling on separate fields and concentrating on detailed battle plans hatched by the commander in chief, can point for and defeat a stronger foe. After eleven months of intense prep aration (TIME, Oct. 17), Army did just that to Michigan. Says Blaik: "It's like plotting a military campaign. I get a tremendous kick out of it." Like Notre Dame's Frank Leahy, the master coach, Blaik can be found...
...Canceled Bomber. On the other hand, the bomber in mass formations over land targets had become very vulnerable. One lesson of World War II, says Bush, is that "bombardment of enemy cities in the face of determined defense, as the sole means of bringing victory over a foe of equal or comparable strength, was a delusion, and not worth the extreme cost and effort it entailed . . . [In the future] no fleets of bombers will proceed unmolested against any enemy that can bring properly equipped jet pursuit ships against them in numbers, aided by effective ground radar, and equipped with rockets...
...take the job of skipper. Moreover, he knew just what he wanted the Jefferson of the future to be like: a school where students would lay the basis of interservice understanding by taking combined courses in "naval, military, air and diplomatic sciences." Said Tip Merrill, once an outspoken foe of service unification (TIME, April 22, 1946): "Jefferson Military College could set the example for the nation to follow...
After the Stanford game, Columbia, Cornell, Army, Dartmouth, and Holy Cross will perform in the Stadium before the team hits the road. Local followers will be able to see Harvard twice more after it returns from Princeton, when the Crimson entertains Brown and closes against its traditional foe, Yale...
...student isn't in, the process-server leaves a card saying, "A messenger from the Lamont Library has been to your quarters for the following titles! *** Kindly return them immediately. There will be a messenger foe of 75 cents added to your term bill...