Word: assaulters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pacific. Thailand's Premier Phibun Songgram, pointing out nervously that 20,000 "Free Thai" troops were mobilized across the Chinese border, wanted the U.S. to put troops right in Thailand where everybody could see them. The Communist threat, Dulles replied, is not a local problem but a coordinated assault on the free world by a unified power controlling 800 million people. No nation could keep enough power within its borders to combat that concerted power...
...Anthony Eden flew into Bangkok annoyed and disappointed with Secretary of State Dulles. Dulles' New York speech, carrying a U.S. pledge to defend the offshore islands if they were invaded as part of an assault on Formosa, seemed to flatly contradict Eden's hopes that Dulles was coming to agree that the islands should be given up. In Britain, while Eden was aloft on the way to Bangkok, the Labor Party was giving the government a rough time. "The danger of war in the Far East arises not from Chinese but from American aggression," cried Bevanite Harold Wilson...
...tried chlorpromazine first on victims of manic-depressive psychosis in the manic phase-the kind of patients who are admitted to the hospital "swinging from chandeliers that aren't there," who throw their shoes at attendants, keep other patients awake by shouting all night, often try to assault attendants and doctors...
...position on Quemoy and Matsu. What he said was simple, almost trite: he warned the Communists again that if they persisted in regarding these islands as stepping stones to Formosa, and if they attacked them, the U.S., committed to defend Formosa, might accept the Communist definition of such an assault as the beginning of an attack on Formosa and retaliate accordingly...
...Stunner. Congressman followed Congressman in assault on the bill. Cried Illinois' Mason: "Just remember all of those billions we have given away and what good did it do us? All those foreign countries hate America. Thank God I didn't vote a penny for the giveaway program." West Virginia's Democratic Representative Cleveland Bailey rambled for 30 minutes, then said: "Now I'll pass on rapidly to the subject at hand." Chairman Smith glanced at the Navy-type, 24-hour clock on the wall, murmured: "Thank you." A few minutes later, Smith called for a vote...