Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Joint Chiefs of Staff to have under arms by next June. When the Korean war began, there were 1,400,000 men & women in the armed forces. Since then, 400,000 draftees, reserves and guardsmen have been called up. But General Omar Bradley estimated that the services would fall short of the June goal by about 10%. Pentagon pessimists thought it would be twice that...
...remember did." James Thurber estimated "I have four-fifteenths of my life span left . . . Just like you, I expect to be blown up, but hope that I won't be." Historian Arnold Toynbee felt that "One of the traps into which modern scholars seem to me to fall is that they spend their working lives preparing for an imaginary last-judgment examination and keep on missing the moments for action." Thomas B. (The Black Rose) Costain admitted being "not as tolerant in my opinions . . . getting a little antisocial as the years roll on." John Erskine: ". . . I purposely reveal...
...French Nightclub Singer Denise Darcel talks carefully broken English. There are a good many indistinguishable songs and dances, and now & then there is a refreshing change from sex to seasickness or sanitation. The revue also shows its ancestry at moments by having people climb into boxes or letting feathers fall from the roof. Out of it all emerges one pleasant dance number about snow men, and one entertaining number requiring a palm tree tied to a chair...
...people of the People's Republic of China shall have freedom of . . . religious belief." With these fine words, the Chinese Communist government tried last fall to soothe anxious Christians, inside China and out. For a while, many a Protestant missionary and even some old China hands were hopeful. But it was soon made plain, even to the hopeful Christians who had swallowed the "agrarian reform" line, that Communists in China feel no more kindly toward Christianity than do Communists in the U.S.S.R., Czechoslovakia and Hungary...
...thought Vag, how can one remain impartial in a football stadium on a brisk fall day? Is it not better to cast logic to the winds and wave the dear old flag and be bloody but unbowed...