Word: armes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress, or Democrat Oren E. Long would rank as Hawaii's senior Senator, Long called heads and lost. In a draw to determine which would get the long term, Fong won again. Over in the House, Democrat Daniel K. Inouye, World War II hero whose right arm was shattered by a German grenade in Italy, took his seat as Hawaii's sole Representative, became the first man of Japanese ancestry to sit in Congress...
...Chiefs of Staff (1953-57), toured the Middle East. Operating in five such groups, the committee members returned to Washington, in March handed Ike an interim report warning that his $1.6 billion budget request for military aid was at least $400 million too low, specifically lacking in funds to arm NATO's deterrent forces with IRBMs...
...leaned out the window, pointed a rubber syringe at Thompson, squirted a stream of liquid. Only bad aim saved Frank Thompson from serious injury: the liquid was sulphuric acid, and the little that did hit Thompson burned a hole through his shirt, raised a blister on his arm...
Holding Anne-Marie's hand and occasionally putting a comforting arm about, her shoulder, Steven explained almost plaintively to newsmen his reasons for allowing only five reporters at the ceremony itself: "For many of you, this is merely another job. Anne-Marie and I have to live for the rest of our lives on the memory of what goes on in this church. For us it is a very private occasion and a religious one. I hope you will respect our feelings in this...
...work in the jungles of Samneua province where there are no roads and where the monsoon has turned the few tiny airstrips into quagmires. What he wants is money, medical supplies, food and weapons to give to villagers in the threatened countryside. "We must win people's hearts, arm them, organize them into guerrillas and send them after the Reds. We have a saying in our country: 'When the hand is pierced by a thorn, use a thorn to remove it.' The people are our thorn-they alone can save Samneua." But in these two provinces (long...