Word: attackers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matter with him? Why is he sore at us?" Answered the astonished aide: "Why, Mr. President, you can't expect him to be very happy over the Little Rock situation and use of Federal troops." "Golly," said Ike of the man who last summer directed the Southern attack on civil rights legislation, "I didn't think he'd take that personally...
...Senate's Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee has decided to dig deeply into the state of the U.S. Navy's antisubmarine defenses. Reason: secret CIA estimates of the Soviet Union's ability to attack U.S. cities with submarine-launched nuclear missiles, secret suspicions that the Navy has been spending too much money on spectacular aircraft-carrier plans, too little on undersea and antisubmarine warfare. High on the committee's list of possible recommendations: a change of the Pentagon's present Joint Chiefs of Staff system to something akin to a Defense Department planning staff recommended...
...does not yet have an operational IRBM), the U.S. will offer missiles to any NATO members that want them, but nuclear warheads for the missiles will be held in U.S. custody "only a few feet" from the launching platforms. The missiles could be armed at the first sign of attack, but the decision to use them would be a matter of mutual agreement. The French or Germans will need U.S. consent to use the warheads, and the U.S. will need French or German consent to use the missiles which carry the warheads...
...sophomore members of the squad also proved themselves admirably in their first varsity matches. Former captain John Watkins gained the varsity's most lopsided decision of the afternoon, defeating Jim Sniderman, 9 to 2. Watkins pressed the attack for most of his match, and had little trouble downing his Indian opponent...
...actually had little reason to worry, for Alice had long since collapsed under his devastating attack and idolized him completely. They were married the October after his graduation. She was to die in 1884 during childbirth...