Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month ago there were widespread fears that the Republican Administration was leading the U.S. into war over a hunk of rock named Quemoy. As of last week the Administration's Far Eastern stand was by no means considered a political success, but the on-again-off-again cease-fire had brought a general easing of tension...
...Lengths. After Dulles departed, the Communists stopped shelling for a while, and Red Defense Minister Peng Teh-huai, in a broadcast beamed at the Free Chinese, announced that shore batteries would hold their fire every other day so that supplies could reach Quemoy. Furthermore, said Peng, the Peking government stood ready to supply Quemoy with "anything" the island lacked. "It is time now to turn from foe into friend," he added...
...Cathedral. The phrases he used when describing the rebels were the sort that no Premier before him had dared to utter. Most of them, he said, had fought "courageously," and he offered them "the peace of the brave" (see box). But he was only willing to discuss a cease-fire with the F.L.N., not to meet their demands for independence. Only by peaceful evolution could the "courageous personality of Algeria" come to exist...
...There it is boys, there's a big bag of boodle in it. All right, fire at will...
GENEVA--The Soviet Union Thursday night rejected Western proposals to ban nuclear weapons testing for one year. It was an unpromising prelude to the American-British-Soviet talks opening here Friday on possibilities of a permanent nuclear cease-fire...