Word: disrupts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...duty for two years would satisfy most of the Pentagon's needs for a backlog of fully-trained soldiers. UMS would also allow young men the certainty now made impossible by Selective Service. Because they would know exactly when they would have to serve, only a global emergency could disrupt their plans. As for Congressmen, they cannot expect to improve their political position by sponsoring a UMS program, but at least they would be accomplishing something useful...
...part, the change of policy is merely recognition of the fact that arms production is woefully behind schedule. But the real significance is political. Arms production could be put on schedule by a tighter squeeze on civilian goods. That, however, would disrupt large segments of the economy, and in an election year, nobody, least of all Harry Truman, wants to do that. The President, in fact, is planning a $10 billion cut in the requested military budget for the next fiscal year (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Aircraft builders, blame the lag on the Administration's reluctance to disrupt the civilian economy, say that the Government will have to get a lot tougher on civilian production before things get any better. Judged by plane production, the Administration plan to have both guns and butter is working out all to the advantage of butter...
...turns out to be fairly pleasant work. By abducting the beautiful daughter (Jody Lawrence) of a Riff chieftain on the eve of her reluctant wedding to the head of a rival tribe, the legionnaires disrupt a tribal alliance and stall the attack. Lancaster outfights and outfoxes the Arabs' desperate attempts to recapture the spitfire, while keeping his men's paws off her and taming her into submissive love...
...quite so gently, "The sincerity of your proposal is questionable." That Heuss could answer so quickly and firmly was a sign that West Germans had come to see the Red proposal for what it is: a bogus offer of unity, subject to Russian conditions, and designed solely to disrupt West German rearmament. West Germans, most of whom really do want a unified Germany, were looking to Paris instead. There the U.S., Britain and France, supported by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, asked for a U.N. commission to determine whether free elections are possible in East Germany...