Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...September's end it was clear to Red China that there would be no cheap victory at Quemoy. On Oct. 6 the Communists declared their first cease-fire-"out of humanitarian considerations," as they put it. The Nationalists coolly used the letup to unload tens of thousands of tons on Quemoy. On Oct. 20 the Communists canceled the ceasefire, laid down erratic shellfire until Nov. 3, when they put down about 40,000 shells in a bombardment that had so little military meaning that U.S. observers conclude it must have been aimed at U.S. voters...
...will ever know." At that point Wayne Morse blew with a fury old friends in Oregon and the U.S. Capitol are wary of. Soon after Morse sent to Employee Pickert a check for $49.25 in wages and a parting explanation: "I am very sorry that it became necessary to end our working relationships. However, I have found from experience that whenever one has such strong differences with my political views which you expressed to others, loyalty of friendship is sacrificed...
...week's end, the two survivors lay limply on hospital beds. All B-58s-the hottest bombers in the Air Force arsenal-were unofficially grounded. A deep question plagued the minds of Air Force investigators: how to do a better job of protecting the flyers of the jet age against the bone-crushing hazards of bail-out at supersonic speeds...
Bulganin said that at the end he had voted right, i.e., to uphold Khrushchev's leadership. But "I accepted all subsequent [demotions] as deserved by me and necessary to the party. I have sincerely confessed my mistakes. I have asked the Central Committee to get me back on the party rails. I ask only that it let me fullfill the duties which have been entrusted to me, the duties of chairman of the Stavropol economic council, and I shall endeavor without sparing my energies to remove from myself this spot of shame...
...Communists show themselves to Kassem as Iraqi patriots who believe that Nasser wants to end Iraq's independence. Kassem, a politically unsophisticated soldier, is not generally regarded as Communist-although, as British Journalist Michael Adams points out, it could be risky to underestimate Kassem's powers of dissimulation, since he fooled the wary Nuri asSaid for all those years...