Word: dragons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just when cooler heads in the Administration had about decided to forget the whole thing, up jumped Connecticut's Democratic Brien McMahon last week to wave excitedly at an old dragon. Joined by Oregon's Republican maverick, Wayne Morse, McMahon presented a resolution: the Foreign Relations Committee should spend $50,000 to find out whether any attempt had been made by any group representing Nationalist China to influence U.S. foreign policy since Pearl Harbor...
...years of combat he was wounded many times, losing an eye and thereby earning the nickname of the "One-Eyed Dragon...
Superb Tailoring. What kept the huge audience rooted to its chairs was a modern morality play combining elements of such medieval pageants as St. George and the Dragon and such movies as Little Caesar...
...came a report that Mao Tse-tung had decided to send 150,000 men of his Second Field Army, plus 60,000 "irregulars," to replace losses in Korea. Commanding the new troops was one of Red China's top generals, Liu Po-cheng, famed as the "One-Eyed Dragon...
...Alienation of Affection. When Warren Robinson Austin was a village boy (birthplace: Highgate, pop. 300), his dragon-swearing grandfather predicted: "Warren, you'll never amount to anything. You have 20 irons in the fire at once and you never finish any of them." Austin never forgot how he ran out to the barn to weep on the neck of his favorite horse. "When I could talk," he remembers, "I told that horse and myself that I'd never start anything in life I couldn't finish...