Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Typical of such frontier news sources, he discovered, is Churchill (pop. about 1,100), a fast-growing grain port and supply point for the strategically important eastern Arctic. Nearby Fort Churchill is a cold-weather proving ground for Canadian and U.S. military weapons, gear and clothing, and has been designated for next year as an observation station for the International Geophysical Year...
Jordan's reprisal was to kill three Israeli Druze watchmen at an oil camp in the eastern Negev desert, not far from where Jordanians had ambushed a busload of Israelis last month. Next night a powerful Israeli army force-some 1,000 troops according to Jordan sources-slammed twelve miles across the desert frontier into Jordan and, supported by artillery and bombing planes, wiped out a police post at Gharandal, almost midway between the Dead Sea and the Red Sea. Jordan reported ten police, National Guardsmen and civilians killed, eight wounded...
This area has major geopolitical importance not only because of the oil-rich eastern lands, but also for its major role in history as a principal western approach to the heartland of Europe...
...aims were 1) keep the Communists out of the Middle East, 2) keep the peace and preserve the highest possible measure of unity of the non-Communist world, 3) keep the Suez Canal in working order so that Middle Eastern oil might continue to flow to Western Europe's industry. None of these objectives would be achieved and all of these objectives would be jeopardized by a shooting war. In the tactical sense, the U.S. was ready to accept blame from the British for dragging its feet if that might give Prime Minister Anthony Eden a better chance...
...over the previous year-according to the Yearbook of American Churches. Thus 60.9% of U.S. citizens are now affiliated with religious bodies as compared with 57% in 1950, 36% in 1900. Denominational breakdown: 58,448,567 Protestants, 33,396,647 Roman Catholics, 5,500,000 Jews, 2.386,945 Eastern Orthodox, 367,370 Old Catholics and Polish National Catholics, and 63,000 Buddhists...