Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower last week named South Carolina's Governor James Byrnes to be one of five U.S. delegates to the eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. Howls of protest rose. Chief complaint: Byrnes is one of the South's best-known champions of race segregation; as governor, he pledged his administration to abandon South Carolina's public-school system if the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in the schools. The U.N.'s General Assembly contains many Asian and African delegates explosively sensitive on the subject of race. Sample protests in telegrams to the President...
...front, the last day was the longest. In nine languages, they heard the cease-fire order on bunker radios. Many grinned as they listened to their lieutenants and captains read them the message from Eighth Army Commander Maxwell Taylor: "There is no occasion for celebration and boisterous conduct. We are faced with the same enemy, only a short distance away, and must be ready for any move he makes...
...across the front, hours after the : truce agreement was signed, the big guns roared. U.N. artillerymen were under orders not to shoot unless shot at. The Reds, however, wanted to slug it out until the 10 p.m. bell. The Communists fired round after round at U.N. trenches; the Eighth Army guns fired back at the Red cannon. Said one marine wounded on the last day: "I guess those fellows on the other side didn't get the word...
...seventh got away in a chariot but, according to legend, the earth opened up and swallowed him; the eighth lived to tell the tale...
...shaky scaffolding of Italian politics, Premier Alcide de Gasperi worked warily to mortar together a new government for Italy, his eighth since the war. He could no longer count on the three small parties of his coalition to help carry the hod. Two were so hurt by the June elections that they barely counted any more, and the Democratic Socialists of Giuseppe Saragat, cut down to 19 seats, decided to quit the team...