Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Important Risk. Dead set on the other side of the argument-and against any "liberalized" China policy-are the President's closest foreign-policy advisers, led by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Walter Robertson, Dulles' Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs. Together with Defense Secretary Wilson and all the Joint Chiefs of Staff, they argue vehemently for the current official position that the U.S. (as Robertson crisply puts it) must take no action "which would create international prestige for the [Peking] regime...
...dream-come-true. At the instant that Dwight Eisenhower was piped over the side of the supercarrier Saratoga at the new carrier base in Mayport, Fla., two F4-D Skyray interceptors were shot off the forward steam catapults at 141 knots to prove the capability of even a dead-in-the-water carrier...
Beneath all this tinseled ugliness, however, there is hope. And the hope rests with that very college generation whom we so passionately accused. For all is not yet dead; there is a very real and persistent current of experiment in all fields. The neophyte painters, the tyro poets, the novice novelists, who feel they must create what is not only new and polished, but also good. There is a constant effort at cultural invention, weak albeit tenacious...
...regrets" Vag said, viciously drop-kicking a beer can out the window and onto Plympton Street. "Eight years in this town and you're dead. Make that six years. It's the same thing. The same thing happens. This place is just like any small town in Kansas. The same people belong to the Country Club as belong to the Kiwanis and the Thursday Evening" Literary Society. Spend a couple of years in a place like that and you think you're really king of the rock. You know everyone in town and everyone knows you and you think...
...with outraged letters. "Your grandfather would spin in his grave," wrote an Albany physician, "if he could see the antics of the people who are spending good American dollars earned in the good American way by your once-fine company." Wrote someone from Los Angeles: "Dear Henry: Drop dead...