Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy. Morning found Burke still in his office, the Navy deployed, the lead battalion of Marines on the Beirut beaches. The Sixth Fleet's 60,000-ton supercarrier Saratoga and support carrier Wasp, with 40-ship escort, were riding offshore. Reinforcements, including the guided-missile cruiser Boston and attack carrier Essex, were steaming up from Greek waters. Sweeps of AD Skyraider and A4D Skyhawk bombers, plus F8U Crusader interceptors, were heading out over Lebanon and Jordan. Burke's follow-through: in Lebanon a second Marine battalion landed, then a third. Back across the Atlantic the carrier Antietam loaded...
...Democratic Senator Wayne Morse roadblocked the Administration's passport bill designed to offset the Supreme Court's ruling that, under existing legislation, the State Department may not deny passports to U.S. citizens on the grounds of beliefs or associations (TIME, June 30). Denouncing it as an "inexcusable attack on constitutional guarantees," Morse stalled the bill in the Foreign Relations Committee under the rule requiring unanimous consent for a committee to meet while the Senate is in session...
Most Americans denounced the British-French-Israeli attack on Suez. The tragic irony is that our intervention is not very different ... A disinterested observer might say that we are warmongering...
...pencils in 1940 on radio's quiz show Take It or Leave It, began a seemingly unstoppable inflation when he stunned incredulous listeners by presenting a game in which Eversharp contestants could supply progressively difficult answers and work their way toward an extravagant "$64 question"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...condemn you, who have made me an orphan. You attack the logic of religion and laugh, at cocktail parties, over totem poles and pillars. You dismiss mystics as paranoids and prophets as crackpots. You pride yourselves as Men of Logic when your understanding is mechanical. In your anxiety to reason, you have for gotten how to feel...