Word: lines
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...sharp contrast, Acheson then staked out a second Asian area in tougher language. The nation's defense, said he, rests on a North Pacific frontier running along the Aleutian Islands to Japan and down through the Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa) to the Philippines. In case of attack on this line, he said, the U.S. would defend all these positions. (For Korea, hanging perilously close to the most naked of Russian ambitions, the Secretary offered only a vaguer acknowledgment of "responsibility...
...flyer hardly dared to stand in a chow line any more. In the new Air Force, there are no mess sergeants; a "food service technician" presides over the kitchens. Last week the commanding officer of the Boiling Air Force Base abolished a term that Army legend traces back to General George Washington. Henceforth none of its airmen will go to "mess"-they will chomp their ambrosia in "dining halls...
...could make a contribution ... I will be a candidate. If I do not so conclude, I will not be a candidate." There was another question, he added: "Whether one, as governor, could secure the cooperation of other governors in arousing the people of the nation to hold the line,.against further encroachment upon the rights of the state...
...freighter bound for Tientsin. He jumped ship in Japan, was surrendered to the U.S. Army and put back on the U.S.-bound General Gordon. Last week in San Francisco immigration authorities were waiting for another ship on which to re-deport him to China. Lawyers of the American President Line shuddered at an awful possibility: that the Chinese Communists might refuse him entry, and he would spend the rest of his days a man without a country, crossing and recrossing the Pacific, at the President Line's expense...
...would happen the day Notre Dame finally gets its corner on the player market. Big Ten would fall off 28 points in the first ten minutes' trading, and not even the million and a half dumped on the market by the Pacific Coast and Southern houses could hold the line. The only way to stop it would be to declare a College Holiday...