Word: drews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Force pilots over Hanoi drew small comfort from the stringent warning to avoid residential areas. Their orders specified that if any plane got shot down outside a city, a jet protective patrol would be put overhead and a helicopter brought in to rescue them within the hour. If, however, a pilot crashed his aircraft in an urban area, he was told that he could "speak saroya," Air Force jargon for goodbye. Going in on the fourth wave over Hanoi, the pilot of the downed F-105 Thunderchief did in fact speak saroya: hit by crippling fire, he bailed out. Later...
...Destroy This Letter." It was this collection of Klein-Dodd letters that disaffected aides had removed, copied and fed to Columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson. Their series of articles accusing the Senator led to the investigation (TIME, July 1). One abrasive letter from Klein in November 1963 upbraided the Senator for not rising to his defense during an investigation of foreign lobbying by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, of which Dodd is a member. "What are you afraid of?" demanded Klein. "Do you consider friendship a one-way street...
...help administer his program-and promote "national unity"-Balaguer announced a Cabinet that drew on every political shade. He named the secretary-general of Bosch's leftist Dominican Revolutionary Party (P.R.D.) as his Secretary of Finance, made the vice president of a minor rightist party another Secretary Without Portfolio...
Abusive Barrage. With 650,000 Palestinian refugees in Jordan-fully one-third of his nation's population-Hussein has had to pay lip service to Shukairy's militant dreams. But when it came to allowing Shukairy's recruiters to go to work in Jordan, the King drew the line. "In this country there will be one army with one loyalty," he said. "Anything else is an infringement of sovereignty and will not be tolerated." With that, Shukairy turned on Hussein, presumably with the tacit consent of Nasser, who is none too happy with Hussein's recent...
...concerned than elated over our tactical coup. Some felt it was another step up the ladder of escalation in a futile war. Others were worried over headlines indicating that North Korea had pledged support to the Viet Cong and that Great Britain, until now one of our staunchest allies, drew the line at attacks on civilian centers...