Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Virginia's Langley Air Force Base came evidence that the downhold has reached to smaller items. Ruled Deputy Base Commander Harold P. Sparks: street lights will stay off at night, air conditioners must be shut down, motor vehicles left unwashed, pencils and paper clips ordered only by emergency requisition. Moreover, announced Colonel Sparks, patrons at the base commissary were requested to return paper shopping bags for reuse...
...Pilot Steeves., visibly shaken, stood by his story. Said he: "They can't disprove my story. How can they? Are they going to interview animals? Things happen miraculously to people in this day and age. I don't have anything to hide." Stationed at Boiling Air Force Base at Washington. D.C.. where he is undergoing tests in preparation for an instructorship in survival for airmen, Steeves waved emptily at the brandnew grey Jaguar he bought shortly before his famed adventure. "Look. I've lost everything in the world-my wife. What have I got with...
...less U.S. advice. One example of this was a decision not even to use the phrase "antiCommunism" in any speeches in Thailand. Diem remains a Roman Catholic and a staunch antiCommunist, but he has become convinced that Communism is best fought in Asian terms, and from a non-Western base. The next stop, as Diem sees it (and as he hopes to convince other Southeast Asian leaders), is the creation of such a base through a revival and reappraisal of Asian culture and Asian values...
...Lisbon, Vice Admiral Charles R. Brown, commander of the U.S. Sixth Fleet, took public notice of greatly increased movements of Soviet cruisers and destroyers through the Dardanelles into the eastern Mediterranean. The Russians are thought to have established a base, complete with floating drydock, on Albania's Saseno Island...
Though Mao Tse-tung labors to establish the myth that the peasant masses provided the popular base for the Communist conquest of China, the fact is that much of Mao's earliest and most influential support came from the dedicated mandarin intellectuals-who flocked to the Communist cause. One such was pretty, zealous Chiang Ping-chih, who under the pen name of Ting Ling was regarded, at 21, as one of China's finest playwrights and novelists...