Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself is no angel. Operating a rumor factory, he has something on everybody ("Everybody knows Manny Davis--except Mrs. Manny Davis"). Yet he appears on television each afternoon, spreading the American Gospel: "Our best secret weapon is D-E-M-O-C-R-A-C-Y." His weakness is his devotion to Suzy, whom he doesn't want to lose. When he finally does, one feels very satisfied...
...than abandon the people of Berlin and permit the whole Western position to crumble. To that end, there is much to be done between now and the end of May-a real concerting of plans with our allies, a building up of NATO power in Europe, an increase in American troop strength and a return of British and French divisions to the continent, possibly Turkish and Italian reinforcements, and a strengthening of NATO's tactical air force. At home the unwise demobilization of our Army strength since Korea should be reversed and a crash ICBM program put into immediate...
BMEWS, locked into existing U.S. radar chains, including the $600 million DEW line across North Canada-Alaska, will instantaneously feed its data on the incoming missiles into North American Air Defense Command at Colorado Springs and into the Air Force's Strategic Air Command. Theoretically, SAC would have 20 minutes or so to get thermonuclear bombers airborne while the President or his authorized deputies take the decision whether or not to launch the bomber counterstrike. The President or his deputies will also decide-in perhaps five minutes-whether or not to launch the U.S.'s handful of intercontinental...
...Caused a mild flap in Washington over his acceptance of an invitation of the American Society of Newspaper Editors to address their April 17 meeting there. As Cuba's Prime Minister, Castro should have sent his intention to visit the U.S. through diplomatic channels. Just the same, said the State Department, he "will assuredly be welcomed...
Based on a series of dramatic fragments by German Playwright Georg Büchner (1813-37), Wozzeck created a sensation when first performed in Berlin in 1925, was almost immediately recognized by European critics as one of the century's operatic masterpieces. But the fear that American audiences were not ready for Wozzeck's cerebral, atonal music long discouraged the Met from attempting...