Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been dignified the previous weekend by a conference with the President of the U.S. (TIME, Sept. 23), returned from Newport all full of himself, soon gave up any pretense of living up to his implied agreement to start withdrawing National Guard troops from Little Rock's Central High School. He desperately tried to whip up backers for his claim that Little Rock had been about to erupt into violence at the start of integrated classes. Example: he called in a Little Rock city official, displayed a schoolbook with a square section of pages cut out ("Just right for hiding...
...they were. The last dozen or so of the 250 National Guardsmen who had moved in on Central High School and the executive mansion two weeks before pulled out quietly as Orval Faubus was speaking. That left the city of Little Rock free to go on about its business-if Orval Faubus, by manufacturing the myth of violence, had not in fact whipped up the reality...
...this situation Dulles' central concern was that Syria's Soviet-armed leaders, "perhaps unwittingly," might be led by "an abnormal sense of power" into attacking their Arab neighbors. Dulles warned the Syrians-"This is risky business"-and he quoted the action passage of the Eisenhower Doctrine. "The U.S. is prepared to use armed forces to assist any nation or group of nations requesting assistance against armed aggression from any country controlled by international Communism...
...next few weeks along a 5,000-mile arc stretching from northern Norway to southern Turkey. Operation Deep Water will see some 10,000 U.S. marines make a landing on the famed Gallipoli Peninsula, guarding the Dardanelles at Russia's back doorstep. Operation Counter Punch, in Central Europe, will call into action all NATO's air strength together with the national air-defense systems of Britain, France, Belgium and The Netherlands. All in all, more than 250,000 men, 300 ships and 1,500 aircraft are participating in the biggest maneuvers since World War II. Formidable as these...
...revolt against the Dutch. For the first time since his resignation as Vice President last December, Hatta accepted a social invitation to the presidential palace, even joined Sukarno in leading lissome Moluccas maidens through the steps of the "sweety-sweety" dance, To cap the ceremonies, a troupe of Central Javanese actors put on an adapted 8th century Hindu morality play in which a pair of quarreling brothers are finally reunited by Ibu Pertiwi, the personification of the motherland...