Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...single principle of "resisting the power and influence of Communist China because I believe to do otherwise is to build up the enemy," Walter Spencer Robertson, Virginia investment banker and China economic expert, built up unusual influence in six years (1953-59) as Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs. He advocated strong U.S. support for Nationalist China's Chiang Kai-shek and South Korea's Syngman Rhee while restraining them (in personal missions) from impulsive counterattacks, helped build the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, recommended U.S. support for Nationalist China's defense of the offshore Quemoy...
Until he and his party crossed the border, a thick, unseasonable wall of cloud covered the eastern Himalayas, hampering pursuit. The next morning, in an abrupt change, which the normally cool-headed London Times suggested might be due to the mystic powers of Tibet's lamas, the clouds dramatically lifted...
Even as things now stand, Iraq marks a major Russian advance in the cold war. With the influence it now wields in Baghdad, the U.S.S.R. has achieved the major role it has so long sought in Middle Eastern affairs. But with that new status, Moscow has also acquired new problems. If the U.S.S.R. decides to push ahead with an attempt to establish an undisguised People's Democracy in Iraq, the Soviets must assume that they will alienate all other Arab nations, inherit the scapegoat position of "imperialist oppressors" that the Western powers have long occupied in Middle Eastern minds...
...early and stayed late. At the crew-conscious University of Washington (class of 1917), he was a fine coxswain under the great Hiram Conibear, father of West Coast rowing, and developer of the upright stroke with short layback that became the trademark of West Coast crews, differentiating them from Eastern oarsmen, who took their style from the British. California picked Ebright in 1924 to raise the Golden Bears to Washington's lofty level. Results came quickly. In 1927, 1928 and 1929, California crews, newly tutored in the Conibear stroke by Ebright, left mighty Washington trailing in their wake...
...rate of 25? per $2,500 per day, up to $25,000, deposit coins in a coin box placed close to the telephone. The policy itself is mailed to the insured's beneficiary by the agent. In operation only since December, Insuratrip now does business in four eastern states, has applied for permission to operate in 30 more...