Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Devising means to meet the deadly menace of the U.S.S.R.'s submarines was a key task for the U.S. Navy, but it was only part of its function. The Navy's job, Sherman argued, was also to keep the fighting on the far side of the ocean, to help grab advance air bases, and to deliver the U.S.'s fighting strength when it was needed. For all these, the big carrier is still the Navy's most powerful basic weapon; it can roam anywhere, strike far and with surprise. The J.C.S. was willing to listen...
Arriving in Rio de Janeiro for this week's regional conference of U.S. diplomats in South America, State Department Counselor George Kennan and Assistant Secretary of State Edward Miller received greetings in the Stalinist manner from the Communist newspaper Tribuna Popular. With a nice feeling for rank and function, Tribuna called Kennan "an international bandit," Miller "a male Mata Hari...
...chief function of these conferences as one NSA official puts it, is to "bring different schools together and let them exchange ideas." Delegates talk for ten days about problems like fraternity discrimination, scholarships, and teaching. Then they are supposed to scoot back to school and tell people what other colleges are doing about these problems...
...should like to thank the Harvard Student Council for "overstepping its original function" and adding its support to a bill which would benefit a large number of students in Massachusetts...
Contributions of the Negro to American culture will be emphasized by the club, which is an affiliate of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. As a secondary function it will bring to the attention of the student body any cases of discrimination that appear around the University...