Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were given 25 lashes apiece. Then the regimental surgeon sliced off their ears. One of the victims, wiping away the blood that streamed down his neck, quipped: "This is a hell of a way, Colonel, to celebrate the Fourth of July." The colonel clapped him into a ball and chain. That night the soldier jumped into the river and drowned...
...clip can be used as a cuff link, as a substitute for a lost eyeglass screw, or as a short-timer's chain (remove one per day till discharge...
Inevitably, the job lost some of its ego-tingling excitement in Johnson's White House. Whereas Kennedy had sometimes bypassed his Cabinet members if he felt it would speed a decision, Johnson punctiliously works through the chain of command, and has increasingly sought the advice of Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara on foreign policy. However, despite columnists' occasional claims that the President and Bundy could not get along, the two seldom disagreed on major decisions. Bundy was picked by Johnson to go on a fact-finding mission to Saigon last year, was later dispatched to the Dominican Republic...
Wilson, while convinced that Britain should remain a worldwide power, feels that it cannot afford its growing defense expenditures ($4.3 billion this year), and would like a firm commitment on the U.S. contribution to joint military projects-notably a new chain of island bases east of Suez (TIME, Nov. 19). Johnson, for his part, will invite British cooperation in providing an alternative to the proposed NATO multilateral force (MLF) of missile-firing surface ships, a plan that sank under the weight of allied disagreement. Johnson hopes instead that Britain will turn over its Po laris submarines, now abuilding...
...Guard planes and pilots (who flew on their own time). By last week, 64 planeloads had been ferried the 8,000 miles from California to Viet Nam, with 18 more scheduled to go before Christmas. Many more gifts went by mail or private transportation. Michigan's Booth newspaper chain picked up the tab for airlifting the state's Christmas packages to Michigan boys in the war zone...