Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with East Germany while he was in the country, Zhukov seemed unconcerned about such political matters. In his one big speech he boasted of "our first-class modern arms, including atomic and hydrogen weapons . . . the intercontinental ballistic rocket." Barging slowly through Albania, he inspected the key Soviet-bloc naval base at Valona and told a group of gold-star mothers: "The imperialists are trying to unleash another war, but we, if necessary, can strike a stronger blow...
DeWitt told a conference called by the National Science Foundation that the Russians "have a better and wider base" at the high school level to promote higher scientific training, and that the 1.5 million who were graduated this year "had five times more hours in scientific subjects than the minimum stipulated for entrance to a school the caliber of M.I.T...
After listening to 27 sailors and four marines−prisoners and former prisoners −Marine Captain Haskell C. Baker ordered 16 marine brig guards relieved of duty and confined to the base, presented the Naval base commander with a story of sadistic punishment wrought in the name of good discipline. Items...
...major leaguer to stage an unassisted triple play; after long illness; in Bridgeport, Conn. On July 9, 1909, with visiting Red Sox runners on first and second, Ball made a diving catch of a line drive for one out, fell on second for two, recovered and tagged the first-base runner for three...
Certainly President Kuwatly and the military leaders who put him in power have no interest in letting Syria become a base for either Russian or American operations. The anti-colonialism in the Middle East expressed itself not in Communism, but in an assertion of Arab unity. It would be a major blunder if the United States appeared to be the enemy of this unity and allowed Russia to become its protector...