Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cadets had been taught that one goes around a thunderstorm, or one turns around-but he never, never attempts to go through it. With a choice of flying through thunderstorms to certain death, or of facing the wrath of the horny-headed, fork-tailed Hardin, most of the pilots chose the certain death as the easier...
...many other people, was beginning to be less & less choosy about allies. Franco, after all, sits in a strategic position in the Mediterranean and in Europe, and he has 22 divisions, though his troops are poorly armed and he himself is of dubious dependability. As his ambassador, the President chose Stanton Griffis, onetime Ambassador to Poland, Egypt and more recently to Argentina...
Each year since 1927, when TIME chose its first Man of the Year, the editors have asked themselves the blunt question: Who did most to change the news of the year for better (as Stalin did in 1942 when he pushed back the Germans) or for worse (as Stalin did in 1939 when the Hitler-Stalin pact unleashed World...
...General Dwight Eisenhower in charge. "I know," said "Ike" Eisenhower, "that it will be a long, hard task." It would be hard but, as Ike well knew, the Russians would decide whether it would be long. As his right hand and chief of staff, he chose an old crony of war plans and the bridge table, Lieut. General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther, 51, a steel-trap military mind and the U.S. Army's General Staff Deputy for Plans & Operations...
Cease-fire Commissioners Rau, Pearson and Entezam fixed their eyes on the door's crack, decided to keep trying this week. They reported that they had sent a cablegram to Peking, offering to meet the Chinese Reds any place they chose, presumably even in their own capital. They still hoped that Wu had not given his side's final answer...