Word: clusters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ambassador to Italy in the touch & go postwar years, James Clement Dunn was credited with an important part in keeping Italy free from Communist control. Shifted to Paris in March 1952, he was somewhat overshadowed by the unprecedented cluster of U.S. envoys with ambassadorial rank who made their headquarters there.* Last week President Eisenhower named Dunn to a new post, for which he is well equipped: U.S. Ambassador to Spain...
...platoon leader bound for a short leave in Japan, and wearing the Purple Heart with cluster, scoffed at the enemy. "I've been into the Communist positions three times in less than a month now. I get the shakes before every attack, but I still think he's weak. His grenades are no good; they bounce around like pieces of lead pipe. They kill some of our guys, sure, but lots of 'em are duds and others don't fragment properly. Lots of their mortar shells are lousy, too. I don't mean that hitting...
...added that he does not want people who come to the President of the U.S. to have to walk through lobbies or offices where the secretaries are bunched around smoking. What it boils down to is that a smoke alone at a desk is tolerable, but smokes in a cluster around any one desk are taboo...
...scene, he found part of the well platform a mass of wreckage. The wells' damaged "Christmas trees" (i.e., cluster of valves topping the well pipe) kept the flames close to the platform, making the area too hot to approach. Kinley borrowed a four-man Army team from Louisiana's Camp Polk, tried to shoot off the trees with 75-mm. recoilless rifles. The tree of one well was shot off. Kinley got Pure Oil's crews to weld together a 90-ft. boom of pipe tipped with a big loop and cooled by hundreds of gallons...
...familiar strains of Auld Lang Syne swelled up from a sprawling cluster of tiny coral islands in the Indian Ocean last week, but the singers were not celebrating the New Year; they were merely singing their own national anthem. After years of autocratic rule under Sultans known as the Golden Feet,* the Maldive (rhymes with small hive) Islands had just become the world's newest republic. Queen Elizabeth herself sent the Moslem islanders a message from another island, wishing them "good luck, fair winds and calm waters." A British cruiser stood by to fire a salute, and thousands...