Word: less
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Less than an hour later, the Navy announced that the aircraft carrier Boxer, with a normal complement of 90 planes, and two escorting destroyers, would beef up the 7th Task Fleet based on the Philippines. Next day the Joint Chiefs said they would leave next month for a conference with MacArthur and an inspection trip of U.S. forces in Japan "contemplated for several months...
...Nationalist defeat on the mainland had flooded Hong Kong with thousands of refugees. Many upper-class Chinese brought plenty of money-and inflation-with them. Prices quickly outran the wages paid by Hong Kong's employers. Said Trolley Conductor Kwan Ping, who supports his family of five on less than $30 a month: "My wages cover only rent for my one room and the very cheapest food. I have nothing for clothing or emergency expenses." Other conductors agreed. Said one: "We have no other intention except to fill our stomachs. Why raise trouble if we could live...
...more floridly written Lee's Lieutenants, Lincoln Finds a General is essentially a study in command. It recapitulates old battles not to recapture the horror and flavor of battle but to evaluate the leadership which was often more important than numbers and weapons. Crisper, more critical, less reverent of big names than Freeman, Williams shows Lee and Jackson as the great leaders they were, but quite capable of errors in command (e.g., Lee's slips at Gettysburg, Jackson's boner at Port Republic) which most of their admirers have glossed over. With Grant only an offstage noise...
Williams writes with a soldier's knowledge of tactics, troop movements and logistics. He also writes less like a historian than a staff officer setting down a combat analysis. The result is no placid study, but a creative rethinking of whole campaigns...
...pure-blooded Indian population of Tierra del Fuego numbered less than 150. The white population, principally engaged in sheep-raising, had grown to over...