Word: expendables
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...which usually sternly preaches that countries must live within their means, kept telling the Italian government that it was not living up to its means. ECA officials advised the government to relax credit to give industry a badly needed impetus, expend more ECA counterpart funds on public works to reduce unemployment. The government for the most part ignored these suggestions. Last week, New York Times Correspondent Arnaldo Cortesi summed up ECA's complaints in a dispatch to his newspaper. When the Italian press picked up the story, Italy's able ECA Chief Leon Dayton, former president...
While atomic blows were exchanged, the Red army would engulf Europe. There is nothing yet in Europe that could dam the Red flood. U.S. atomic damage to Russia would be strategically effective only if the Red army were forced by large-scale fighting to expend its hoarded oil, ammunition and other materials. Preventive war in 1950 would mean that the Russians 1) could wreak terrible damage on the U.S., and 2) could take and hold Western Europe, which would be worth more to them than all the targets in Russia that the U.S. could destroy by atomic bombing...
...bomb exploded at ground level would expend much of its energy in digging a crater. Thus the destruction, although more devastating around the detonation point, would be limited to a smaller area than in the case of an air burst. A bomb exploded under water would also lose some of its blast effect, but would throw up an immense column of radioactive water, to contaminate everything on which it fell...
...Engineers, a fine crew, collapsed in the final stages of last week's opener and will be sure to expend their energy more carefully today...
Guesswork in GobbledygooL The psychologists are worse, torn as they are between gestaltists, behaviorists, functionalists, reflexologists and other -ists. They expend their energies formalizing the obvious ("Although other sensations have various degrees of hedonic tone," says one textbook, "pain is notoriously unpleasant"). But the result of all their efforts, Standen insists, is that they cannot say anything really important about man. "It is possible to go clear through a course in psychology without ever hearing what the various virtues...