Word: east
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Where as in your case the big hand gets set by a freak distribution, in this case the big assortment not only does not get to play the hand, but the opposition (East and West) makes a grand slam against him -and it cannot be stopped or beaten...
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...Secretary of State Dulles, architect of the strong Far East policy that has kept Red China locked up inside its borders since 1955, it was a week of unrelenting and bitter pressures. On Monday, he conferred with President Eisenhower on Quemoy, found the President occupied and deeply disturbed by U.S. and Euro pean press criticism (see JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES). On Tuesday, only minutes before his press conference, Dulles sent down for a handful of State Department mail to be picked out at random, read many letters from the U.S. public that said something like "Don't let's have...
...F.L.N.'s tough young masters, who still suspected him of pro-French loyalty, put him through an apprentice course in clandestine operations, sent him scurrying about Europe, the Middle East and South America as a spokesman for the cause. This was hard work for sleep-loving Ferhat Abbas, who likes to get to bed before 9 every night, already wonders how he will hold his head up at evening functions if he ever becomes head of a genuine Algerian state. Slow as he had been to join the rebellion, Abbas still possessed an asset of incalculable value...
Only last July the flames of aggression blazed so high in the Middle East that the U.S. and Britain dispatched emergency fire fighters to Lebanon and Jordan, and the whole world scrambled for the summit in asbestos suits. Last week, on the strength of International Fire Chief Dag Hammarskjold's diplomatic finding that the flames were now well under control, the U.S. and Britain announced that they would pull all their men out of the two little countries by month...