Word: aug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...door, the chair was unoccupied and remained that way for the rest of the day. It seems that the admiral had invited the sentry to accompany him to the opening game of the major-league baseball season, providing his car, cigars and box seats for the occasion. "Bull" Halsey [Aug. 24] was violating the rules again...
Last week, nearly two months after their arrest on charges of currency black-marketing (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq.), four U.S. sergeants stationed at NATO's southeastern headquarters in Turkey had their fourth brief hearing in an Izmir court. For the third straight session the prosecution failed to produce its chief witnesses against them. With a show of bland indifference, the presiding judge adjourned the trial for another nine days...
...your Aug. 31 report on Mrs. Golda Meir: long before the two women leaders mentioned, the Jews had already been governed by another woman, the prophetess Deborah (Judges...
Sorry you did not point out the accomplishment of the old pioneer of them all in your Aug. 31 roundup of newly instituted training programs for Americans overseas. Founded in 1946, thus significantly antedating The Ugly American and other stimuli, the American Institute for Foreign Trade at Phoenix. Ariz, now has approximately 700 graduates living and working abroad in 70 countries of the free world...
...Aug. 14 the first rescuers penetrated into Peking. The Boxers melted away, and next day the main force followed. The siege cost the lives of 66 foreigners and six babies. The rest were saved largely by the incompetence of the Chinese besiegers and the bravery of 2,000 Chinese Christian converts, who dug ditches and erected barricades...