Word: compact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staff in Marc Mitscher's mighty Task Force 58, won a chestful of medals, was promoted to the temporary rank of commodore. When the Navy's own war against the Air Force and the Defense Department broke out, Burke was assigned to head "Op-23," a compact and more or less secret Navy Department task force told off to organize and publicize the Navy's case...
...last week General Sun frankly conceded that he has a tough job of reorganization ahead of him. Only about half of Sun's troops will take his orders; the others feel themselves bound to generals who reject Sun's authority. Actually, Sun would prefer a smaller, more compact army than he now commands. Unreliable generals have been sacked right & left without regard to traditional face-saving niceties. Sun is now busy re-establishing their units under generals of his own choosing...
...overcrowded library in Gore Hall and "doubted whether it be wise for a University to undertake to store books by the millions when only a small proportion of the material stored can be in active use." He suggested that dead books could be stored in a much more compact manner in separate quarters. Naturally every professor was horrified by the thought that a book in his department could be considered "dead," so the idea was dropped for 40 years...
...York Times had called the Peiping conference the "nauseous force" of a "compact little oligarchy dominated by Moscow's nominees." But the Moscow press hailed it as one of the year's two "stupendous events"-the other being Russia's explosion of an atomic bomb...
...Leader. The shmoozers are the ladies' garment workers, who clothe the U.S. woman above the wrist, below the neck, and above the ankle. Just about everything that goes into a woman's bureau drawer or hangs in her closet comes from this compact, 23-block area that runs north from 34th Street to Times Square, west from Broadway to Ninth Avenue. Flanking it to the south is the U.S. fur center, seven noisome streets. On its eastern border are the millinery shops where half of U.S. ladies' hats are fashioned...