Word: dam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cactus." thing?" "You just asked didn't Halley. want to know any Said Virginia: "No, sir, I didn't want to know anything about anybody." With that, she shrugged her mink stole higher on her shoulders, ran a gauntlet of photographers, paused to shout, "You god dam bastards, I hope an atom bomb falls on all of you." Near the door she slapped a woman reporter for good measure. Even for Ginny it was quite an exit. The senators, a bit flustered, had learned exactly nothing about her suspected role as bank courier for the overlords...
...Their search for an answer had set off a great debate, which filled the air waves and packed the letters-to-the-editor columns. Herbert Hoover had touched it off with his Gibraltarism speech (TIME, Jan. 1), in which he said that Europe must first build its own "sure dam against the Red flood" before the U.S. gave it any more aid, and argued that Europe was not vital anyway to defending the Gibraltar of the Western Hemisphere. It was not alone the size of the match that 76-year-old Herbert Hoover struck that made the blast...
...battle from Hagaru to Koto was marked by heavy casualties on both sides. After that, the Chinese tried to stop the marines by blowing a dam and a bridge, and by sporadic shooting from the sides of the road. Not once from Koto to the sea did the marines run into a massively defended roadblock. This, of course, was partly due to effective air help and to the 3rd Division's rescue force, which came up from Hungnam and cleared the lower part of the road. Nevertheless, the U.S. column was a force of 20,000 traveling through territory...
...Korea, should stiffen its hold on Formosa and the Philippines and give the Japanese independence and arms for defense. It should cut off Western European allies without another dollar or U.S. soldier until they organize and equip combat divisions "of such large numbers as would erect a sure dam against the Red flood...
...according to Wilder, the dam broke inside of Whitman, and he found his self-assurance...