Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Asia, where ultimate Communist triumph once seemed assured by progressive default of the West, Dulles had created new opportunities for the U.S. Items...
...only solid pressure that can be exerted on the Chinese Reds in Korea. By visiting Rhee, by refusing to join the attack on him, Dulles has aligned himself with an Asian leader whose courage and obstinacy have won increasing respect in other Asian countries. Anti-Communism is growing in Asia, and Rhee, not Nehru, is its symbol...
Florence Chadwick yesterday swam the current-strong Bosporus from Europe to Asia and back. Tomorrow she will attempt to conquer the Dardanelles and complete an unprecedented grand tour of four of Europe's great waterways in one year...
Jack Dowling, TIME'S one-man bureau working out of Singapore, covered 27,000 miles in Southeast Asia this year, collected a bulging passport of 140 pages. It is not unusual, he says, to see smoke pouring through an air vent into the cabin from some source or other. "You notice the steward coming slowly down the aisle distributing candy. He keeps a worried eye on the vent as he comes abreast of it and closes it with the theatrical air of a conspirator. You join the conspiracy in an airplane whisper: 'Do you think the plane...
...that Korea had overshadowed. Their fortunes and their spirits at a dismally low ebb, the leaders of France were seriously wondering whether to cut their lines and pull out the one plug that was blocking Asian Communism from flooding through to Burma, Siam, and probably all Southeast Asia...