Word: doorsteps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Israel Kastner was not present to rejoice in his vindication. Last March he was murdered on his own doorstep by assassins who had accepted Gruenwald's accusations at face value...
Unfortunately, our defense set-up, as conceived in past Congressional economy cuts, cannot deal rapidly with small wars of the Korea type. It can deal with them, but not with sufficient speed. Unless fighting breaks out on the doorstep of one of our overseas bases, locales where the Russians are scarcely liable to start anything, we are only prepared to move in one division with any alacrity...
...NATO maneuvers to be held in the next few weeks along a 5,000-mile arc stretching from northern Norway to southern Turkey. Operation Deep Water will see some 10,000 U.S. marines make a landing on the famed Gallipoli Peninsula, guarding the Dardanelles at Russia's back doorstep. Operation Counter Punch, in Central Europe, will call into action all NATO's air strength together with the national air-defense systems of Britain, France, Belgium and The Netherlands. All in all, more than 250,000 men, 300 ships and 1,500 aircraft are participating in the biggest maneuvers...
...struggling to raise a tiny church, the building fund was oversubscribed by the next day's mail. Once he put an agonized mother on his program to appeal for the return of her kidnaped child. When she got home from the television studio, the baby was on her doorstep, safe and sound. Mexicans thank Paco Malgesto for that...
...Armed with supreme self-confidence and an initial $350,000 appropriation, Kennedy sent his staff legmen into a dozen cities, headed west himself to tackle Teamster chieftains on their home grounds. One day in the west, he knocked at the door of a labor racketeer, was stopped at the doorstep by a suspicious wife...