Word: bases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desk, Sherman Adams is all business. His chief job is screening the endless flow of business that swamps the President's office and presenting Ike with the kind of direct information-such as a trimmed-down list of names for federal job appointments-on which the President can base a decision. "Whatever I have to do," explained the President at his press conference, "he has in some measure to do." Adams must also settle disputes among top-level officials. "The Governor," says a White House staffer, "is the only man around here with stature enough...
...also got sympathetic consideration of the Philippines' longtime request for a status-of-forces agreement to grant Philippine courts jurisdiction over off-base offenses committed by Philippines-based U.S. servicemen in the style of the U.S.'s status-of-forces agreements with Japan and other allied countries. And he also got a flat and unequivocal guarantee from President Eisenhower that "any armed attack against the Philippines would involve an attack against United States Forces stationed there and against the United States and would be instantly repelled." Summed up the Philippines' Ambassador to Washington Carlos Romulo: "Mission accomplished...
...friend to the proper federal investigative agencies would have been the mark of a Congressman taking good care of a constituent. But nobody knew better than honest Sherman Adams that the White House code was the underpinning of far more than an election platform. It was the base of the President's tremendous moral authority in the nation and the world. The code-and the authority-could be no more lustrous than the record of the chief enforcement officer, and in violating it Sherman Adams had committed a grave impropriety...
...Matador Aparicio boldly approached. As one peoón held the bull's tail and two others blinded the animal with their capes, he killed the bull with a thrust at the base of the skull. Commented a newsman the next day: "Nobody in the ring showed such nobility, such cleanliness in battle, as that bull...
...were losing to Cincinnati 6-0 when the public address system sputtered: "Attention, ladies and gentlemen. The vote on Proposition B, returns from the first 58 precincts, shows: yes, 3,844 votes; no, 3,557 votes." The crowd hooted. "Can I change my vote to no?" roared a first-base fan. "I wanna send these bums back to Brooklyn...