Word: buildups
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Frenetic Buildup...
...women think Robert Kennedy is a "doll." Well, to me he is just a mop-haired, ambitious young Catholic whose father made his fortune out of banking, Wall Street and selling Scotch whisky. As to brother John for President, in spite of the frenetic buildup being given him, let us remember that America is primarily a Protestant country and the majority of our people would not want a man who believes in a foreign ideology to stand at the helm of our Government...
...Khan Noon charged that Russian military aircraft had been allowed to land in Indian Kashmir, and added, "I consider the whole of India to be a Russian air base." India's press countered this attack with the claim that the U.S. Air Force is carrying out a "feverish buildup" in the part of Kashmir held by Pakistan...
...embassy in Amman put on a big propaganda campaign about the airlift of U.S. arms to Jordan. This may have reassured some, but it led other Arabs to conclude that the big powers were shifting their cold war to the Middle East and developing a tit-for-tat buildup that was bound to lead to a dramatic showdown...
Over a Page One cut of a tweedy, utterly English six-footer named Chris Powell, the headline in London's Daily Sketch trumpeted: WIN THIS MAN! HE'S A WORLD SENSATION! After a four-day buildup and a spate of pictures showing Winnable Powell, with a pipe, a monocle and a succession of simpering show girls, the tabloid Sketch (circ. 1,283,000) finally broke the secret. This "elegant, enterprising, experienced man in a million," said the Sketch, would be rotated-for assignment-among the letter writers who could most convincingly explain what they wanted...