Word: fired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commanded Eighth Army (1955) and U.N. forces (1955-57) in the delicate cease-fire period when the U.S. nursed its local allies (South Korea, Japan, Nationalist China) into shape to carry more of their own defense load. Specifics: he put down South Korean riots against U.S. troops (provocation: the U.S. agreed to Communist truce supervisors), spearheaded the Defense Department's successful efforts to solve the land crisis which threatened permanent political unrest on Okinawa, the U.S.'s main Far East defense position...
Reaching Usak, where he had scored his 1922 triumph, Inonu saw police scatter the welcoming crowd with tear gas, made his way with difficulty to the house of Republican Deputy Riza Salci. It was instantly surrounded by gendarmes, and during the night a fire started mysteriously and had to be put out by the Usak fire brigade. The next day, the local police chief announced that he had been suspended from duty because he refused to obey the provincial governor's order to shoot anyone who left Salci's house that night...
...Garcia discovered that in his absence Macapagal and Manahan had got together, agreed to run a coalition slate against Garcia's wallowing Nacionalista regime in the Senate elections this fall. If everything goes well, Liberal-Progressives may merge completely in a year-just in time to wage a fire-breathing presidential campaign against Garcia himself...
...murals boarded up, explained plaintively: "The actors wanted the mural to depict scenes related to their art." Siqueiros promptly let out a cry of rage, called it wanton censorship, threatened to take the issue to the actors themselves, by "force if necessary; jail does not frighten me." With the fire of battle glinting once again in his green eyes, Siqueiros scoffed: "What kind of tragedy did you expect me to portray in a mural?°A Greek tragedy? Nonsense. For me, tragedy in present-day Mexico is the struggle of labor to become independent of government control. Besides...
...Hugh Robertson facetiously told stockholders that he had qualms about announcing them. Explained Robertson: "We were fearful of putting out our first-quarter figures because they were so good. We don't think the stock is overinflated, but we don't want to add fuel to the fire...