Word: viewing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...troops of the U.S. 1st Marine Division, confident and well equipped, arrived from the U.S. and moved out to the front. Later, Gibney went up to join a regiment of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division, which had been fighting steadily for 31 days. What he saw, a platoon-eye view of the war, gave a very different picture from sweeping communiques of how the Americans were doing in Korea. Gibney cabled...
Last April the twelve North Atlantic Allies were congratulating themselves on plans to build up between 30 and 40 divisions by 1955. Actually, that blueprint was as inadequate as the Italians' humanitarian rifles. In the view of top military men in Washington, to contain a Russian offensive Western Europe needs an integrated army of 50 to 70 well-equipped, well-led divisions, backed up by a husky tactical air force-and it needs them a lot sooner than 1955. Two weeks ago the U.S. asked the countries of Western Europe what they proposed to do about it. By this...
...pledged non-violent democratic government, but claimed that the state of siege was still necessary to preserve peace. Said he: "We'll give the patient aspirin as long as the fever continues." The Liberals, Gómez said, "won't recognize me. I respect their point of view. For them I am not President, so naturally I cannot appoint them [to my government...
...Skills. As a first step, the patients were moved to big, airy, first-floor wards with a view of the river's tug and barge traffic. Instead of cluttering the place with terrifyingly complicated equipment, everything was made as casual and simple as possible. Each patient was put to work for an average of five hours a day, learning or relearning the "100 average daily living skills." Each was assigned a card listing the skills to be acquired (e.g., walking, turning on lights, opening doors, turning over in bed, combing one's hair). When one skill was mastered...
...these great events was only dimly heard in Wu's classroom. Wu was a bright pupil. Because he was the smallest boy in his class, he was invariably seated in the first row where he could get a better view of the blackboard. Next to him in the front row usually sat a mandarin's son named Chou Enlai...