Word: coverly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grateful to this railway. En route to Chicago, I can catch up with my reading. The morning of your Heineman story I read TIME cover to cover. We were only one hour and 40 minutes late...
...stabilized the situation in Lebanon for a few crucial months at least, 2) demonstrated to its allies worldwide that it was able and ready to support them, 3) showed above all that the Russians, when confronted by U.S. deterrent power, tend to back down. The U.S. also ordered air cover for British airborne landings in Jordan. But the revolt in Iraq-and the U.S. intelligence failure to anticipate it-left the U.S. no friendly government to support, no rallying point for action. Iraq and neighboring Syria are now coiled up in a squabble between Nasserism and Communism in what might...
...retaliatory capability). But the broadening spectrum of limited power, and the growing military-diplomatic sophistication (the U.S. staff chiefs even have a planning committee for "pseudo-military" missions such as flying refugees from one country to another), still rested -as did the whole free world-under the air cover of the Strategic Air Command...
...Cover) Appearing and disappearing with bewildering rapidity, the scenes that flashed across history's screen in 1958 often had the disjointed quality of a surrealist movie. Some were dramatic portents of a world to come ? missiles trailing a fiery glow as they took off for deep space, bearing with them a gadget that, when asked, sent back the recorded voice of the President of the U.S., another that reported wondrously complicated readings on radiation far beyond the atmosphere...
Exploring Space. "We may as well go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within...