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...Asia could not be won by military means alone but required political savvy as well. An attempt to win it, as the U.S. was doing in Korea, only by force of arms would court eventual failure and force upon U.S. soldiers in the field acts and attitudes of the utmost savagery...
Pardon Our French (produced by Ole Olsen & Chic Johnson) isn't nearly humble enough. Pardon Our Effrontery is the least it should entreat for, and there would be nothing intemperate about Pardon Our Existence. Olsen & Johnson, after achieving the utmost in noise and nuttiness with their Hellzapoppin cycle, have now plunged to the depths of unpalatable boredom. Adopting different and sedater tactics, abandoning the raucous for the merely raw, they have a way of making everything they touch turn to lead...
...machinery inside the truck is able to separate out of the whole blood many fractions never before available. As the blood can be rushed right from the donor into the machines, the blood will preserve its utmost potency...
...prescribe a deadly drug, nor give advice which may cause his death. Nor will I give a woman a pessary to procure abortion." The new declaration covers these items crisply, adding a modern prohibition to cover experiments like those performed in Nazi concentration camps: "I will maintain the utmost respect for human life from the time of conception; even under threat, I will not use my medical knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity...
Savagery by Proxy. To attempt to win it so, as we are now doing in Korea, is not only to court final failure but also to force upon our men in the field acts and attitudes of the utmost savagery. This means not the usual, inevitable savagery of combat in the field, but savagery in detail-the blotting out of villages where the enemy may be hiding; the shooting and shelling of refugees who may include North Koreans in the anonymous white clothing of the Korean countryside, or who may be screening an enemy march upon our positions...