Word: though
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Korea, said he, was a "costly and staggering extravaganza." Postwar handouts to Western Europe had netted the U.S. not one "foul-weather friend." And the United Nations was a "hopeless instrumentality for world peace." Joe Kennedy, though as fervently anti-Communist as anyone could wish, favored abandoning Asia and Europe in the face of "massed manpower and military strength of a type that the world has never seen." He would concentrate U.S. troops and arms strictly in the Western Hemisphere...
...Mudball. The battle had only begun. Joe McCarthy, one of the great mudslingers of his day, rose in the Senate: with a fiercely patriotic air that Henry Clay might have envied (though almost all the seats were empty), he let Pearson have it. The first 17 pages of his typed script were devoted to quotes from 44 people (including Presidents Roosevelt and Truman) who had called Pearson a liar...
...five, Willie Moretti kept his eyes peeled for the fast buck. His first job with a Harlem milkman paid 25? a week. Later, as a teen-ager with plenty of savvy, big-city cunning and a marked talent for crap-shooting, Willie managed to do a little better-though he did spend a year in the reformatory for assault. But it wasn't until he took to betting that Willie really hit his stride...
These considerations may or may not deter the Communists-regrouped North Koreans as well as Chinese-from venturing very far below the 38th parallel. If they do stop, South Korea may be spared the horrors of another Red occupation and some-though not all-of U.S. and U.N. prestige lost in recent weeks may be restored...
...That though in Ireland is my birthplace...