Word: thought
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Additionally, it appears that the Army is not allowing deferments for reservists. My husband asked for a deferment, was turned down, appealed, and was turned down again, because the "requirements of the service" dictated he go immediately. The appeal was turned down so fast that we thought that an electronic computing machine had analyzed it and rejected it, rather than a board of officers...
...Soviet Encyclopedia, whose 65 volumes were removed from Russia by one of our former Moscow bureau chiefs. The first of these useful volumes was printed in 1926, the last in 1947, and complete sets in U.S. private hands are rare. They are especially handy for documenting Soviet life and thought. Even the personal fortunes of the Russian editors of the first volume are instructive: all but one have died, been killed, imprisoned or have disappeared...
...morning there was an attack in company strength on the northeast side of Chunchon. We ordered the rest of the civilians out of the city. Then there was a diversion attack on the south side, perhaps no more than a platoon. Then it was quiet and we thought we could probably hold out until the 31st arrived. But soon the main attack...
...Kalimpong specializes in freeing the struggling spirits of the dying. This he accomplishes by sticking a hollow tube down the dying man's throat to provide a spiritual exit; at the same time the Wizard toots a horn made of a human thigh bone. The Wizard might be thought eccentric elsewhere, but not in Kalimpong (pop. 8,800), a zany Indian town straddling a 4,000-foot ridge in the Himalayan foothills...
This relationship is what the administration was worried about when it called for the report. The post war College was providing a different education than it did in the 1930's, and there were many observers who thought that the modern brand of education wasn't any better than the traditions which it supplanted...