Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Skill, suffering and valor were making history and legend in Korea this week; the U.S. forces and their U.N. allies, suffering heavy casualties, had fought free of the threat of annihilation and were as safe as soldiers could expect to be while the battle still raged. But the cold end-fact was that the U.S. had met defeat in Korea-a defeat that would have to be retrieved somehow, somewhere, if the world-wide march of Communism was to be halted...
...trouble. The father, refusing to report for induction in 1917, successfully eluded the Army until 1920, when he was discovered crouched in a window seat at his mother's mansion. Grover Cleveland Bergdoll (so named, his mother snappishly explained, because President "Cleveland was a draft-dodger . . . and I expect my Grover to be one of the Presidents of the United States"*) was sentenced to five years in prison. He promptly persuaded a gullible major to let him out to pick up $150,000 cached in the Maryland hills. Since Bergdoll was heir to a brewery fortune, the Army believed...
...conduct of human beings towards one another," Mill observes in his essay "On Liberty," "it is necessary that general rules should for the most part be observed, in order that people may know what they have to expect." Mill's words are wise words and deserve attention. But just as the philosopher realized that by applying the rule of reason there had to be limitations on liberty, so reason dictates that there must be limitations on limitations lest they become tyrannical...
...volts for use in the U.S. and with its special adapter and European sockets can handle up to 50. The iron and adapter comes in a neat leatherette case and is fine for either a woman or man. This package contains almost everything people expect in the carefully selected gift. It's different, practical and inexpensive...
...seems as though the Korean war, which was going so nicely only a few weeks ago, has lost its appeal for large chunks of the American public. Businessmen's groups, conservative newspapers, people whom you would never expect it of, have decided that negotiation is the answer in Korea, that the Chinese Communists deserve a seat in the United Nations, and that World War III might not be such a party, after...