Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed. To date, the planes most needed in Korea are not the fastest, latest jets on which the aircraft industry's skeleton production is concentrating, but World War II types like the Mustang F-51. These are slower but have the longer cruising radius needed to fly from distant bases and provide tactical support for ground troops (see WAR IN ASIA). The U.S. had 4,600 such World War II planes in "moth balls" when the Korean war began and was rushing them into action. But Secretary Johnson had earlier this year cut back, from 24 to 16 squadrons...
...Army of South Korea it meant that there would be American planes overhead to help them; that there would be American warships, American weapons and matériel of all kinds. To them it meant that the world's most powerful nation had clearly sided with the distant, strange little republic of Korea...
...possible by this financial easy street are changing the way of life of millions of U.S. citizens, who are realizing for the first time the great American dream of owning their own home. No longer must young married couples plan to start living in an apartment, saving for the distant day when they can buy a house. Now they can do it more easily than they can buy a $2,000 car on the installment plan...
...able to work more efficiently for the common good. But in view of the hopes which the peoples of the world have placed in this nation, they now look only to us. For it seems evident to untold thousands, even from among the most distant tribes, that they have in us a bulwark for the safety and welfare of the world...
...murder. Ultimately it thrusts him into the arms of the queen's innocent niece ("blue eyes set wide apart, dark with excitement, red lips, sweet and tragic, a small bare head covered with golden curls"). Before Line and bride can turn "to face the dark patch against the distant hills which marked the valley that one day would be their home," straight-shootin' Line calls the bluff of just about every shifty-eyed little skunk in South Pass...