Word: thing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Money . . . The first thing Mr. Truman did on the morning of Douglas MacArthur's urgent message was to put in a call for his National Security Council. It decided on little more than a blitz review of the defense budget and a proposed increase of some $4 billion to make a total of $17.9 billion (see below...
...last week to read him the first pink secret dispatch about the Chinese counteroffensive. Collins rubbed his eyes and dialed General Omar Bradley, asleep in House No. 1 at Fort Myer, Va. All that day the Pentagon's brass-level was gloomy with misgivings. Next morning the whole thing exploded when Douglas MacArthur defined "the entirely...
...transfers and promotions. Court-martialed for conduct unbecoming an officer, Lieut. Bigony, a mustang who had worked his way up from the ranks in 13 years of spotless service, faced up to 18 years in prison, dishonorable discharge, and forfeiture of pay. Sighed a Navy officer: "This sort of thing happens all the time ... we just do our best to weed...
...thing that is clear is that the Houses were built to take care of a different social situation form the one which exists today. Everyone is willing to admit that there is now a problem; nobody has yet taken the responsibility for drafting a solution...
...arbitrary thing," the Observatory said, "how can you tell from the stars . . . they...