Word: except
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...aspect of the humdrum world to another. At 2:29 in the morning most of them were dozing. The plane, bound from Los Angeles to Chicago and New York, rode 21,000 ft. over the earth at 300 miles an hour, and the dimly lighted cabin was quiet except for the muffled drone of the engines and the sigh of ventilating...
...world. Moscow may have been severely disconcerted by the bold U.S. intervention in Korea, but Stalin's men have a way of recovering quickly from surprises. Facing this week's situation, they were well aware that nearly all combat-ready ground troops at U.S. disposal, except for thin minimum needs for garrison duty, were committed, or soon would be, in Korea. No man could soundly predict victory in Korea by Thanksgiving or for that matter by the next Thanksgiving unless he ignored the possibility that Moscow might set up a brushfire somewhere else, or intensify the force...
...Omaha colleague was making $450 a day, just for X-raying the chests of Arrfly recruits. The Army's explanation was disarmingly simple. For World War II the Army had been prepared: it got its own X-ray machines and did the job itself, except for a few spots where civilian radiologists had to be hired by the day. But after the war the Army had sold too many X-ray machines as surplus. Now, at many induction centers, it couldn't do the job until it got more machines...
...strange war because nobody claimed to want it, except perhaps for a strange group of quiet men in the Kremlin--and nobody know what they wanted. And at the same time nobody--certainly nobody in the Kremlin--seemed willing to make the sacrifices necessary to stop it. The war had little of the crusade in it. The UN called it a "police action" and in common with most police actions it was tough, and sometimes brutal, and often unpopular...
...Freshman may not enroll in the Advanced Course except under unusual circumstances, the merits of which will be determined in each individual case as it arises...