Word: brink
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...times. A year ago last June, on the beach at Dunkirk, the democracies had a shock which gave men everywhere their first real sense of the seriousness of the war. That feeling did not endure. Last week, with Russia battered to a bloody pulp, with Japan on the brink of another war, with the U.S. facing the decision of fighting in both oceans, the democracies were close to another shock as sobering as Dunkirk-a new realization that World War II was serious business...
...both the President and Mr. Willkie. The thoroughness with which the committee sought to avoid the truth was typified by Senator Nye's admission that most of the members of the committee had seen none of the movies that they alleged were pushing the United States to the brink...
...years of mutual shoving, glowering, apologizing and more shoving had put the U.S. and Japan dangerously close to war. It did not look last week as if Admiral Nomura or anyone else could make either side withdraw cleanly and permanently from the brink. The best formula the Admiral could hope to achieve would be a minor deal which would freeze both sides' positions for as long as possible...
...were tall ones and short ones in the crowd and weights ranged all the way from a hefty 235 pounds down to a bare 125. The two-and-a-half man coaching staff consisting of Chief Boston and Nick Mellen (Al Kevorkian, another assistant, is wavering on the military brink) at times was almost lost in the crowd and naturally it was impossible to make any accurate evaluation of the squad's actual potentialities...
...plans gathered dust simply because the President still teetered on the brink of the great decision he dreads: to reorganize the defense management by a sweeping surgical operation, or to let things boggle along until somehow the U.S. produces enough war material in spite of bad management. From almost every man whose opinion he has respected in the past still came the sincere warning: revise the setup from top to bottom now; bring in fresh management blood to replace the men who have failed to deliver what was needed of them; outline the controls so clearly that the red-tape...