Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spread out across the eastern shore of the Mediterranean this week was the greatest concentration of U.S. armed might ever assembled in peacetime. In a historic show of land, sea and air power, the U.S. had moved swiftly to answer the cries for help from the friendly government of a small nation-Lebanon-that stood in imminent danger of overthrow from subversion. Of itself, the show of strength rocked the Communists, who count on subversion to win the cold war, provoked Moscow's Khrushchev into a demand for a summit conference (see below) and titillated him into a threat...
...hard decision to go to the aid of Lebanon came short hours after the nationalist coup in Iraq threatened to set the whole Mideast in flame. In its historic answer to the faraway fire alarm...
...alternative of letting the fire spread through Lebanon and Jordan would weaken the free world's whole system of alliances, would weaken also all small pro-Western governments from Morocco to the Pacific. Under the circumstances, and in the light of the West's inability to answer free Hungary's call in 1956, the President's duty to act promptly was clear. So was his duty to act with enough force to handle any eventuality in the area. But with the fire damped, the U.S. policymakers saw their next job as extricating the troops from Lebanon...
History's judgment on the U.S.'s answer to Lebanon's cry for help would hang largely on what the U.S. did next. The troop movements were final proof that the U.S. was thoroughly committed to the Mediterranean. The long-range value of the whole effort could well be that, as a probing operation, it would enable the U.S. to decide quickly and precisely what its Middle Eastern objectives are and act accordingly...
...remarried. Stepfather Andrew Wells is the sort of pipe-smoking, tweedy adult to make a Radciiffe girl's heart do nip-ups. To complete the idyl, there are two other men: Chris, a callow college graduate; and Chadburn, a hesitant illustrator. The question: Who will get Sally? The answer: nearly everybody...