Word: arraying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this array of experienced hands the sophomore contingent, and it is easy to see why Munro is pleased. Maurice Toro, Alex Haegler, Marvin Weiss, Care McIntosh and Bill Cowperthwaite have shown excellent form so far. Toro can provide the shot that was lacking in last year's attack, and Haegler is very fast and a good ball-handler...
...Indiana's demagogic Senator William Jenner, who is up for re-election and who has vilified Eisenhower's friend, General George Marshall. (Among past Jenner epithets for the old soldier: "Living lie," "Front man for traitors," "Unsuspecting stooge or an actual co-conspirator with the most treasonable array of political cutthroats...
When the fleet reached open waters, it formed quickly into battle array. British ships went one way, U.S. ships the other, until the two had formed into separate task forces like two huge targets on the water, the carriers in the bull's-eyes of each. Side by side the two forces steamed along, code flags dipping and bobbing, signal lights blinking. One problem of the exercise was to develop a "joint language of command" understandable by both tars and bluejackets. On Mainbrace, U.S. signalmen no longer reported signal pennants "two-blocked" when they are hauled...
...During the war I made the most agonizing decision of my life. I had to postpone by at least 24 hours the most formidable array of fighting ships and of fighting men that was ever launched across the sea against a hostile shore . . . This is what I found out about religion: it gives you courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to higher power. Only by trust in oneself and trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose...
...blooded associations like the Keep American Committee and Protect Americanism League may fare poorly in most of the Union, but they can always claim California as their stamping ground. Combined with the local virulent brand of Hearst journalism and American Legionnaires, they are a formidable array. And in their perpetual stampede, it is the state school system which suffers most...