Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...were to write a modern history primer, he might put down this: it has become the business of the U.S. to make the Pacific, in the words of General MacArthur, a peaceful lake. The Pacific actually became a U.S. responsibility when Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853 opened the Pandora's box of Japan; the U.S. began to recognize its responsibility when it took the Philippines from Spain in 1898, helped to quell the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, helped to settle the Russo-Japanese War in 1904. In World War II, it cost the U.S. a painful, bloody, island...
Radford brought to this fight much more than narrow departmental esprit de corps, more than the questionable methods that were used by the Navy in its desperate attempt to make its points. At Annapolis he absorbed the great U.S. tradition of sea power-the tradition that led U.S. Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan to explain to the British how they won and held their empire, the tradition which explains Winston Churchill's grasp of strategic problems...
...closer than their Army or Air Force colleagues to the subtle interaction of prestige, politics and physical force. The Korean war is a weirdly pertinent example of the warning that Radford & Co. were trying to give the U.S. For their case, it was unfortunate that in their zest to make it, they got sidetracked in an assault on the Air Force's long-range bomber...
...Surgeon General, Eccles built the shelter in ten days, and says it is "calculated to afford protection against blast, flash and gamma radiation within a reasonable distance of ground zero of an atomic bomb burst." Although Eccles does not plan to go into the business, he is willing to make his specifications available to contractors if the government approves Mrs. MacDonald's shelter. Eccles thinks similar shelters could be mass-constructed in Canada for about $500 each...
...half dead, or half asleep, but lift up your voice with strength. Be no more afraid of your voice now, nor ashamed of its being heard, than when you sing the songs of Satan. Sing modestly. Do not bawl . . . Strive to unite your voices together so as to make one clear melodious sound. Sing in time. Do not run before or stay behind...