Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what we have in mind, look at this week's BACKGROUND FOR WAR story, "Iran: Land of Insecurity," with its full-color photographs and two-dimensional maps. The area covered by this report, the Middle East, contributes little bold type to today's headlines. Reason: blessed with the initiative, the Communists chose to put Korea in the news rather than Iran. Overnight, their next choice will become the focal point for all news-gathering agencies...
...desert, and Author Young explains the performance better than anyone else so far. When Montgomery finally bowled him over, in the assault beginning at El Alamein, it was by sheer weight and numbers. Of Montgomery, Rommel wrote: "He risked nothing which was the least dpubtful, and any bold action was completely foreign to him." To which Rommel's chief of staff, Fritz Bayerlein, added: "I do not think General Patton would have let us get away so easily...
...wooden rack below to see if the man across the hall had gotten his Esquire yet. The brown envelope was lying on top of a magazine. It was thick and heavy, like the package ice cream came in, and it had Vag's name typed on it in bold capital letters. Vag ripped it open and looked inside. There was a book, a big book with a tasteful cover. "Career," it said. Vag put it under his arm and padded back up the stairs...
Both Corners of the Mouth. Contrary to the myth that it was Harry Truman's own bold decision to fight in Korea, the idea actually originated in the State Department. Acheson's director of Far East affairs, Dean Rusk, and Army Secretary Frank Pace were dining out the night the first message arrived from Seoul. Rusk saw the hazards and also the possibilities of the situation. Russia at the moment was boycotting the Security Council. With Acheson's permission, Rusk got Trygve Lie started on calling a Security Council meeting. Acheson, meanwhile, was convincing the President...
...jubilee. Purchased from a London dealer for a price estimated at somewhere between $65,000 and $100,000, the picture had belonged to the Dukes of Manchester for almost three centuries. Philadelphia Museum Director Fiske Kimball called it "one of the supreme examples" of Rubens' "dynamic energy and bold plasticity...