Word: bracings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marching into New Delhi's presidential mansion last week to present his credentials as the new U.S. Ambassador to India, scholarly-looking Ellsworth Bunker was momentarily jolted by a loud, off-key blast from a brace of turbaned trumpeters. Next morning when he opened his paper the ambassador was greeted with yet another sour note: a slashing attack on the U.S. and Britain by India's Prime Minister Nehru...
...FLYING Fox (310 pp.)-Mary McMinnies-Harcourt, Brace...
...Dive Bomber and a dozen other pictures made him a well-paid, well-known man, a sort of Secretary of Aviation in Hollywood's ruling circles. In World War II Wead wangled active duty, hobbled about the flight decks of the Pacific with his neck in a steel brace, and won the Legion of Merit for his theory of the supporting carrier, a major contribution to Pacific strategy...
DISASTER AT DUNDEE (240 pp.)-John Prebble-Harcourf, Brace...
...INNOCENT (370 pp.)- Madison Jones-Harcourt, Brace...