Word: arming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Abandoning his business career at 50, Lehman devoted the remainder of his life to public service. Always a supporter of liberal causes, he entered polities in 1923 as Roosevelt's lieuteant Governor and succeeded him as Governor in 1932. Roosevelt referred to him as "my good right arm." In 1942 he became director of the State Department's foreign relief and rehabilitation operations, then United Nations' relief administrator, and in 1949 he was elected to the United States Senate. There held the fight against Senator Joseph McCarthy...
...brushed her lips against the flag. As she did so, Bobby Kennedy lingered brooding near the rotunda wall. When a reporter remarked to him of the crowds, Bobby managed a slight smile and murmured, "Fantastic. Fantastic." Then the couple left. Outside, Jackie said, "Let's walk a bit." Arm in arm, they moved almost like ghosts across the lawn below the steps and through the waiting line. As they turned to descend the hill at the Senate side of the Capitol, a silent, respectful throng began to follow far behind until they crossed a street to a waiting limousine...
...ride again. Black Jack, a 16-year-old dark chestnut gelding, is the pride of Fort Myer's stable of 27 ceremonial horses, and has performed in dozens of military funerals over the past ten years. Now the animal was skittish, prancing sideways and endlessly tugging at the arm of the Army private...
...Kennedy family walked toward their seats, Jackie for the first time seemed unsure of herself. She started blindly toward the grave, but Bobby caught her arm and gently guided her to a chair. Beneath her veil, tears glistened, and suddenly she jerked her head up in surprise as jet fighters roared over. There were 50 of them, representing the states of the Union...
...Vietnamese cook. A half-mile away, 200 government soldiers at another post heard the battle, but, fearing ambush, dared not go to the rescue (next morning the route they would have taken was found sown with Red mines). After 40 minutes, the Communists withdrew, carrying off enough weapons to arm one of their battalions, plus four captured American advisers.* Because it took Saigon's new revolutionary regime more than a day to supply enough troops for a helicopter-borne counterassault, most of the Reds escaped. Some government troops had been tied down in fighting elsewhere, but a U.S. officer...