Word: armed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suffering increasingly in recent years from ulcers, headaches and fatigue, Walter Robertson sought to resign as long ago as January 1957. Secretary of State Dulles, an old friend, put his arm around Robertson's shoulder and said: "You just can't leave. I want you for policy matters, and you can leave the detail stuff to other people." Last July Robertson wrote out a formal letter of resignation to President Eisenhower, was turned down again. Reason: the Quemoy crisis was brewing, and Robertson's resignation might be read by Red China to mean a softening...
...arms of Communist power in Iraq, none is more effective than the People's Court, which the Reds have virtually converted into an independent arm of government through which they focus pressure on Kassem. Presided over by Kassem's cousin, Colonel Fadhil Abbas Mahdawi, a willing tool of the Communists, the court stages televised nightly trials of "enemies of the regime," i.e., enemies of the Communist Party. Mahdawi is a suety, quick-witted ruffian-"Egypt has always had bad rulers. Cleopatra was a whore"-who holds court to extract confessions rather than dispense justice. Making...
...varsity's casualty list has dwindled to one serious injury, Ed Martin's damaged Achilles tendon. Skip Pescosolido hurt his arm after a succession of 200 ft. javelin throws, but his condition is not believed to be serious...
Bruce Hunter qualified for second place in the preliminaries and finished fifth in the finals of the 50 yard free-style. His time in each race was 22.5 seconds. But on the last lap of the finals he locked and overextended his arm, and badly sprained it, hitting the side of the pool. This put him out of the rest of the championships...
With Gerry Emmet out of action due to a sore arm, what little depth the pitching staff had was greatly depleted. In the opening game, the second line hurlers were not even able to hold Richmond to less than the seven runs the Crimson batters amassed...