Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minority Leader Kenneth Wherry had been trying for almost a year to get some such law passed, but never before had they had so receptive an audience. MacArthur's testimony was still fresh in every Senator's mind. The Administration's objections had been that blanket restrictions would interfere with U.S. sources of strategic materials, hamper allied unity, produce such odd results as keeping West Germany from buying potatoes in East Germany. Now, the Senate had its dander...
...muddy foxhole in central Korea crouched battlewise Colonel William Harris, commander of the 7th Cavalry Regiment. The colonel was unshaven and bone tired; his eyes were bloodshot from lack of sleep. A sodden G.I. blanket around his shoulders inadequately shielded him from the pouring rain. "This," said the colonel, "is the worst...
...amendment to keep the deferment test from being mandatory on local boards. The clause will merely say that local boards do not have to defer on the basis of grades made on the test; it will not affect the other sections of the recent presidential order which gave blanket deferment to all graduate students in all fields and to students who maintained a certain standing in their class...
...more than an hour," Beveraggi-Allende continued, "they applied one or more electric wires to different parts of my body, especially to the more sensitive organs. In order that there might not be any visible traces of this torture, I was covered with a blanket, and, while they were torturing me, music was played over a high powered loud-speaker to drown my screams of pain and despair...
...Once a jeep, hustling around a sweeping curve, hit a Russian-made wooden-boxed mine; in a thundering flash the jeep sailed into a roadside paddy field. One man was led, stumbling, from the wreckage; another was laid face down on a litter and quietly covered with a blanket. At 6:30 p.m., Task Force Growdon linked up with the paratroopers. "Boy," said the men of the 187th, "we're sure glad...