Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cross-examination Counsel Jenkins and committee members sought to show that Adams had tried to bring an end to McCarthy's investigation of Army Communism by 1) ingratiating himself with Joe and Cohn, 2) using Schine as a "hostage," and 3) when these efforts failed, threatening to make public a report on the McCarthy-Cohn-Carr efforts to get favors for Schine unless Joe changed his mind about issuing subpoenas for members of the Army loyalty board...
...French Red Cross helicopter clattered out of a slate-grey sky, and put down at Dienbienphu. Two khaki-clad officers and an angular French civilian stepped gingerly down to the muddy, shell-torn airstrip, and a Communist liaison officer came forward to greet them. "You are one hour ahead of schedule, messieurs," said the Communist. "You should know that our Democratic Republic's time is one hour behind your own. Now, if you will please follow me." The French had come back to Dienbienphu to settle terms for evacuating their 1,500 wounded, as vouchsafed by the Communists...
With Lebanese-Brazilian links such as these, Chamoun's visit was sure to be friendly. He received the Grand Collar of the Southern Cross from Vargas, signed a "most-favored-nation" commercial treaty, addressed Congress. Everywhere he plugged Arab-Latin American solidarity in the United Nations...
...Monopoly. Wholesale blood donations and widespread blood banking got off to a flying start in World War II. The American Red Cross, as the U.S. Government's official collecting agency, did itself proud and drained off 13 million pints. During the cold war, the Red Cross had to do a balancing act: while it could not keep its monopoly in blood (and flatly denied that it wanted one), it sought compromise measures to insure a supply of freely given blood for the armed forces, for civil defense and for disasters. Trying to work with organized medicine, it agreed...
Free for All? The Red Cross insists that no charge ever be levied for blood which it has collected from volunteer donors, or for serum albumin and gamma globulin derived from such blood. But the A.M.A. and state medical societies claim that free blood-for any patients other than charity cases-is "socialism." In public statements some officials of county and state societies have shown that they are determined to wrest control of blood from "lay" groups...