Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then he sat down to write a speech taking back all his victorious vaunts of two nights before. At 12:30 a.m., delayed until his reply to Eisenhower was in Washington and thus free to be broadcast, Ben-Gurion's speech of abnegation went on the air. Hoarse and halting, the patriarch spoke his surrender: "The government is prepared to withdraw its forces from the territory of Egypt immediately after the entry of the international emergency force into the canal zone...
Before British bombers knocked Egypt's Voice of the Arabs off the air, the International Federation of Arab Workers broadcast an appeal to Arab field hands to blow up Western oil installations-"even if it means blowing up all the pipelines in the Arab world!" Promptly, workers in tiny Bahrein set fire to a British oil company office. Three big explosions were reported along the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s 556-mile pipeline to the Mediterranean. Saboteurs may have acted on their own. At least, none of the oil-producing or oil-transmitting Arab nations officially ordered the sabotaging...
...control of much of the countryside, but Soviet tanks, withdrawing to the outskirts of Budapest, left behind a crushed city, ringed by Soviet steel. Moscow announced that it was ready to negotiate a withdrawal of all Soviet forces from Hungary. To cold, bone-weary rebels, Communist Radio Budapest broadcast: "Please, please stop. You have won. Your demands will be fulfilled...
...Yale-Dartmouth game opens the series on December 15 while another Ivy League game, which has not been named, will close the program on March 9. The Cornell-Pennsylvania game on February 9 will also be broadcast...
Aaron's interpretation of the broadcast as having humor is correct, but the script's humor is a very subtle, Wellesian sneer. In the original, the farmer on whose field the first rocket landed was slow and countrived, but in Aaron's he is more of the village idiot...