Word: keep
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...delegation to the U.N. dropped in at a bookstore on New York's Lexington Avenue, bought about $70 worth of titles, mostly on atomic energy, the H-bomb and air power. Later they came back for $80 worth more, including Vogue's Book of Etiquette, which would keep them posted on such nice points as Manners in Public Places, Behavior of a Debutante, "One World" Etiquette, Fox Hunting, On Being Entertained at the White House...
Just how much of Britain's uneasiness has been quieted by the Attlee-Truman talks is not yet certain. Britons are still asking: How do we keep from getting ourselves entangled in Asia...
...vehicles ran into murderous mortar, machine-gun and small-arms fire from Communists in log and sandbag bunkers. The U.S. answering fire and air attacks killed thousands of the enemy and held the road open. When the lead vehicles reached Koto, the rearguard was still fighting near Hagaru to keep the enemy from chewing up the column from behind...
...military men agreed that greater reliance on direct air supply would be a vital supplement to sea and land transport in any major future war. The most extreme advocates of air supply maintained that it was already possible to fly combat forces to any point in the world and keep them supplied. Nobody had argued along these lines more persistently than Combat Cargo Command's General Tunner, who believes that "We can fly anything, anywhere, any time...
Orders from the Chief. If magazine editors as well as generals and statesmen were tripped up by the turnabout in Korea, so were many U.S. newspapers. In their efforts to keep up with fast-moving news, some editorial writers had a hard time deciding where to stand...