Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...military secrets. But talented Alfred Redl had one terrible weakness: he was a homosexual. Russian agents contrived a trap and caught him one day; then they threatened to expose him unless he turned traitor. Redl turned, for eleven years served Russia as a master spy-within-a-spy. The extent of his treason was discovered after war broke out in 1914: Russia knew the Austro-Hungarian and German war plans. Two fellow officers visited Alfred Redl one night, left him a loaded pistol. Alfred Redl took the hint, stood before a mirror and fired a bullet through his brain...
...basic preparedness problem is to fully prepare "at the same time maintaining economic health," and a chief danger is psychological--public reaction to a cold war, as opposed to a hot war, can "most profoundly affect hours of work, rate of productivity, extent of voluntary savings, wage demands, strikes and labor slowdowns, and general public attitude toward controls and restrictions...
...impressive as their own physical plant is, its administration is even more proud of the extent of the Medical School's hospital affiliation...
...classical view of the relation of poetry and war, MacLeish explained, was that poetry came afterwards and told the story, justifying was to some extent. But this presupposes that there is a return to peace, and now war goes on and on continually. Poetry can no longer be content to describe war, but must criticize war and give us an image of human perfection for which we can live...
...upon the same terms as the rest of the world. But within a few years, we have seen Russia closing in upon the Chinese empire. If she succeeds, we will not only be excluded from these markets, but we shall stand face to face with a power controlling an extent of territory and a mass of population the like of which the world has never seen. In the presence of such a colossus of despotism and military socialism, the welfare of every free people is in danger." Lodge said this in 1899, long before the military socialism of the czars...