Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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During the last few weeks various correspondents and military spokesmen have tabbed a half-dozen or so North Korean drives ... as the Reds' "last gasp," "final major push" ... It doesn't add up. The Reds have a lot of planes. They haven't used them . . . Why have they held...
Down in the troop compartment housing Sam Jaskilka's Easy Company, the gunnery sergeant, big, bearded Bob Barnett, 29, was sounding off with final instructions: "You people are the leading company for the main assault of this operation...
...Military measures are no final solution to the problem. The people have to know what they are fighting for, what shape their country is intended to take. That can only be done if the Bonn government begins to move to Berlin. Then the whole world would understand that Bonn had taken title to all of Germany, that it spoke and acted with a claim to the Germans in the East. The aim would be to get the Soviets to withdraw, with some face-saving gesture...
...World Medical Association has now decided that Greek gods & goddesses are out of place in the 20th Century's air-conditioned, aseptic temples of healing. In Manhattan next month, the W.M.A. (a federation of 39 national medical associations) will take final action on replacing the tradition-crusted Hippocratic oath with the snappy, streamlined Declaration of Geneva, drawn up two years ago. Last week the modernists claimed enough votes to make the change...
Japan took the big decision in an imperial conference on Sept. 6, 1941: war against the U.S. unless the U.S. backed down on China by early October. The proposal of the supreme command was blunt and final; Hirohito's civilian ministers accepted it. Apparently only Hirohito himself felt called upon to make any further observations. He pulled out a poem that had been written by his grandfather, the Emperor Meiji, and read it aloud...