Word: objects
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Ready for Responsibility. A lot of careful people, including Dean Acheson, would object to such measures because, among other reasons, they might "provoke" Communist China. It was true that the U.S. must guard against taking on more than it can handle; but it was time for the U.S. to stop being overly scared of Mao Tse-tung. The U.S. had good reason for not wanting to tangle with Red China; but Red China, faced with huge economic problems and internal dissension, had equally good reason for not wanting to tangle with...
...About the Sergeant." Sitting on the roadside and munching their cold rations, the G.I.s discussed the battle. Some meager loot-a few Russian Tommy guns and occasional pistols-was the object of interest. Three G.I.s in a jeep posed grandly for a Signal Corps photographer, with a North Korean flag taken from a fallen enemy. But G.I.s had found, in the pockets of dead Korean Reds, all too many reminders that the Reds, for their part, had looted the American dead. One G.I. said wryly: "Every time I hit one of those bastards, I get a fresh package of Lucky...
...Buddhist goddess Kuan Yin, he explains, had many of the same virtues that Christians revere in the Madonna: purity, motherhood and the understanding of sorrows. He also approved of Hindu representations of Christ that looked like the god Siva, "because Siva is a highly spirtualized deity. But we do object to Christ being represented in the guise of Buddha, since Buddha is worshiped...
Giannini argued that the FRB had known of the deal for months, and should not have waited until the last minute to object. The federal court thought differently: it convicted Giannini and Transamerica President Sam H. Husbands of contempt, ordered them to jail within 30 days and their companies each to pay fines of $2,500 a day unless the sale was called...
Last January, Malik had walked out of the Council when Dr. Tingfu F. Tsiang of Nationalist China took the chair. Said Malik then: "I object to any ruling emanating from a person who represents nobody . . . This [is] not a meeting, but a parody of a meeting...