Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...support to Israel in so many ways," and he hoped indeed that Israel would not choose to "impair" these fruitful relations. (Privately, he told Israel it could expect no U.S. help if Israeli delay resulted in Russian attack.) Writhin 24 hours Ben-Gurion, fearful of the Russian air buildup in Syria and concerned about the U.S., capitulated...
Last week's crash was not expected to slow the buildup of the nation's B-52 fleet to 600-900 planes by 1958. Nor did the grounding seriously weaken U.S. defenses. Still in the air were the Air Force's venerable B-36s and shorter-ranged but strategically based B-47s. B-52 crews, moreover, continued to report for around-the-clock duty, and on the flight lines their ships stood combat-ready, their engines tested, their fuel tanks full. "In any need or emergency," said the Air Force, "the B-52s will...
Drew's departure leaves the Tories with no obvious successor, but a handful of likely candidates among their senior M.P.s. The party high command expects to call a convention for November or December to pick a new leader, then start the national buildup that they hope will give him a fighting chance for victory next year...
...sooner had Chairman McCormack solved his problems within the room than he ran into a violent and unexpected pressure buildup outside. A band of Northern civil-rights warriors, dogmatically certain that any compromise was bad, caught John McCormack before he got to bed. At the head of the band were Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams (who comes up for re-election this year, must deal with powerful Negro and auto worker groups in Michigan), New York City's Mayor Bob Wagner, and lesser partisans of the N.A.A.C.P., A.D.A. and other civil-rights groups. They demanded...
...last week. It had always been one-sided. Teams of truce inspectors-Swedes and Swiss appointed by the U.N., Poles and Czechs named by the Reds-freely ranged South Korea, making sure that the 1953 armistice restrictions were meticulously observed. But in North Korea, where a buildup of men and materiel has gone on in defiance of the armistice, Communist team members obstructed inspection wherever violations occurred...