Word: skills
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Skill, suffering and valor were making history and legend in Korea this week; the U.S. forces and their U.N. allies, suffering heavy casualties, had fought free of the threat of annihilation and were as safe as soldiers could expect to be while the battle still raged. But the cold end-fact was that the U.S. had met defeat in Korea-a defeat that would have to be retrieved somehow, somewhere, if the world-wide march of Communism was to be halted...
...this chatter about interplanetary travel began to irritate Novelist-Columnist J. B. Priestley, who wrote in the London News Chronicle: "The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please...
...defeat-the worst defeat the U.S. had ever suffered. Even though the U.N. forces might still have the luck, skill and power to slow the Communist drive and withdraw in good order from the devastated peninsula, it was a defeat that could not be redressed in Korea. If this defeat were allowed to stand, it would mean the loss of Asia to Communism. If it were allowed to stand, no Asian could evermore put any stock in the promise that had given him hope against Communism-the promise that the U.S. and its allies would come to his help...
When Ernest Walter Hives was made chairman of the board of Rolls-Royce Ltd. last month, it was a fine compliment to his engineering skill. It was the first time a man who had come up from the ranks had sat in a chair heretofore reserved for eminent public figures. Last week, just before the retreat in Korea, Lord Hives was paid the kind of compliment he likes even better. The British Commonwealth 29th Brigade went into action with what some experts call the West's best heavy tank, the low-slung, 52-ton Centurion. It is powered...
...Treasury under Hoover, recalls, "there was never any doubt of Franklin Roosevelt's ability to write. When as a holdover Under Secretary of the Treasury, I came to the White House almost every day in the early days of his administration as President, I found that same skill, further developed...