Word: fielding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Around the big (20 feet long) table were gathered the advisers. Among them, on Harry Truman's side, were Secretaries Acheson, Marshall, Snyder, General of the Army Omar Bradley; with Attlee were Ambassador Sir Oliver Franks, Field Marshal Slim, Air Force Marshal Tedder. For an hour and 35 minutes, vowing they would come to a "mutual understanding," they laid the groundwork for discussions to come. Intermittently, behind closed doors, they talked for five consecutive days, while the noise of the katydids-planned "leaks" and planted rumors-rose around them...
From Frankfurt: When the U.S. first took the field against North Korean aggression, U.S. prestige was saved from annihilation. Had the U.S. ignored this aggression, Germans would have lost all confidence in its determination to resist Soviet aggression. But U.S. prestige remained in a precarious state of health until the Inchon landing...
...Gilbert Corporation is the leader in this field. Their engineers are apparently inside men in the Pentagon and Oak Ridge, who are lifting the latest trade secrets. This whole program of advancing scientific orientation of the little tots is a kind of junior universal military training to prepare them for the coming, grim years...
Graduation last spring cost the Jumbos their middle-distance strength--Ed O'Connell and Fred Shoeffer--and star dashman Rudy Fobett. Tufts will have to rely on field events to build a respectable point total this afternoon, and the Crimson runners could bring about a 30 point scoring margin...
...highlighted the '47 campaign, and the duller competitors fled the field. Inspired by the speech given by Sally Rand in a pre-war Smoker battle, titled "What the Stage Door Johnny is Looking for When He Stage-Door-Johnnies a Burlesque Stage Door," two candidates brought strippers Sally Keith and Scar- lett Kelly from the Old Howard to talk to the freshmen...