Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down to Milestone. It was in September 1955, with the U.S. economy flourishing and the nation filled with a confidence he had helped create, that Eisenhower suffered a heart attack. In June 1956, not long back on the job, he underwent surgery for ileitis. The months after that must have seemed to Ike just one damn thing after another. Overwhelmingly reelected, he had no sooner presented his program than his respected Treasury Secretary George Humphrey undercut him by publicly blurting out fears about a "hair-curling" depression; Ike failed to rebuke Humphrey, and the year's legislative battles were...
...asking the resignation of his staff chief, Sherman Adams, who had accepted hotel hospitality and gifts, including a vicuña coat, from finagling Boston Industrialist Bernard Goldfine. But in much more important areas, he returned from Milestone Plantation ready, as he had not been since his heart attack, to follow the creed of Theodore Roosevelt: "Here is the task. I have...
...celebrated unending adventure and available women, served up a sex fantasy (Thirteen Men) with enough spice to make it an overnight bestseller in 1930, followed with others in the same highly seasoned vein (Thirteen Women, Rabelais for Boys and Girls), faded fast and returned to advertising; of a heart attack; in Nantucket, Mass...
...Broadway stage from commercial mediocrity in the 1920s by tenaciously putting on demanding works by such authors as G. B. Shaw, Eugene O'Neill, Robert Sherwood and William Inge, was the first to pair Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne on the stage (The Guardsman, 1924); of a heart attack"; in Norwalk, Conn. The Theatre Guild never recaptured its glories of the '205 but achieved some later notable successes. It was Theresa Helburn who sent the script of Lynn Riggs's Green Grow the Lilacs to Composer Richard Rodgers and suggested it might make a' good musical...
Leaping from 1,000 transports, pouring from 500 crash-landed gliders, 34,000 U.S. and British airborne troops slammed at seven river and canal crossings between the Maas and the lower Rhine, starting Sunday, Sept. 17, 1944. In the biggest airborne attack of all time, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery had high hopes of hurdling the river barriers to outflank the Siegfried Line and thus end the war in Europe by a single-front thrust. Operation Market Garden failed. Though the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions won their objectives, the British ist Airborne met disaster, was chopped to ribbons...