Word: certain
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Both guests had been hating each other at a distance for some time-Pearson because of McCarthy's character-daubing attacks on people Pearson likes, McCarthy because of Pearson's character-daubing attacks on him. The action started before the entree, and it had a certain air of grandeur: in their line, Pearson & McCarthy are the two biggest billygoats in the onion patch, and when they began butting, all present knew history was being made...
...train them; to do so would also disturb the production of war goods by robbing defense plants of men before the plants were in shape to replace them. One of General George Catlett Marshall's convictions is that all-out mobilization should be ordered only at the certain prospect of war, and he is not yet convinced that war is inevitable. He often speaks of the disastrous reaction that would set in among trained but idle troops if a great buildup is not followed by a shooting war. He worries about the Russians just sitting back, not fighting...
...week's end, it seemed certain that nearly all of the X Corps were safely aboard ships...
...that it can be downright dangerous; even its most ardent partisans admit that it will not do a complete immunization job in every case. It can be used only on patients showing no active sign of the disease. An added difficulty is the fact that no one can be certain just how effective BCG is until it is made the only preventive agent in a long-term experiment on a large mass of people...
Pardon Our, French is an Olson and Johnson production with an active east including six midgets. While not quite at the top of the list for drama lovers, there is a certain attraction in this which should be kept in mind when entertaining people from distant points...