Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Could Formosa be held? The answer seemed to be that it could, and with a relatively small force. Ninety miles of water lie between Formosa and the mainland. Mao Tse-tung has no navy, no air power, no amphibious forces. Its occupation would demonstrate to all of Asia the determination of the U.S. to stand fast. So ran the argument...
...Hoar, captain of the Freshman squad last year relies chiefly on power for his points and his hard service is the high point of his game...
Comparing the U. S. Air Force with the British Navy during the century of peace when England held the balance of power, Flanders asserted that the Air Force's "strength lies in its existence...
...there may be less crude ways in which we can expand. Perhaps we can set up spheres of influence here and there which give us some of the results of power without all the responsibilities of ownership and government...
...that they should look at the long-range interests of all the people rather than to the short-range interests of their own group. We have to do this in spite of the fact that those who undertake it may thereby lose the positions which give strength and carrying power to their words...