Word: pours
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Indo-China waited tensely for the next Communist move. If Red-backed Ho Chi Minh attacks with his Viet Minh army, De Lattre may throw him back, but if the Chinese pour in, as they have in Korea, the slim French forces will have to pull out. Last week the foreign colony which gathers at Hanoi's Metropole Hotel rustled with rumors. Some said that the Chinese were already advancing from Langson, others that there was a deal on with the Viet Minh. The Metropole's atmosphere was one of anxious, noisy gaiety. Foreign newsmen met with free...
...orders are issued. Premature cutbacks will merely cause layoffs and the closing of plants and in the end, U.S. production will be hurt more than helped. Once war orders go out in big enough volume, civilian production will be cut back automatically and the weapons will begin to pour...
This decision, however, is overruled by the larger number who would not allow appeasement, even partial appeasement. "Try to maintain a line at the 38th parallel," they say, "pour in as many men as we need to hold on." If we can not do this now they say, pull out and then go back in again, We cannot afford to lose face in the East, this school claims...
...another moral. He said that this nation had to have an enduring system of national defense instead of a "feast & famine" military program. While he was Secretary of State in 1947, Marshall recalled, the country had only one and a third infantry divisions, yet people were urging him to "pour it on the Soviets and give them hell." What the country needed, he said, was a system "that will not collapse at every change of the wind and temperature, a system that will keep us prepared . . ." What he did not say, though it was also true, was that such...
...Thanksgiving Eve, at the hour when all of New York seems to pour out of office buildings at once, and the gloomy and echoing caverns of Pennsylvania Station fill with people, two Long Island commuter trains gulped up their nightly rations of humanity. Their doors clanged shut. The Hempstead-bound 6:09 rattled out into the East River tunnel with 1,000 men and women jammed in the seats and aisles of its twelve cars. The Babylon-bound 6:13 pulled out behind it with 1,200 rush-hour passengers...