Word: followed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...support carrier Wasp, with 40-ship escort, were riding offshore. Reinforcements, including the guided-missile cruiser Boston and attack carrier Essex, were steaming up from Greek waters. Sweeps of AD Skyraider and A4D Skyhawk bombers, plus F8U Crusader interceptors, were heading out over Lebanon and Jordan. Burke's follow-through: in Lebanon a second Marine battalion landed, then a third. Back across the Atlantic the carrier Antietam loaded up 1,000 more Marines, assault helicopters, jet interceptors, pulled out of Norfolk with a new-type "fast-landing force" while supercarrier Forrestal pulled into Norfolk to take on some more...
Foster Dulles had in his hand a wire from U.S. Ambassador Robert McClintock in Beirut, advising that Lebanon's President Chamoun was urgently requesting U.S. troops. The Dulles brothers outlined the problem: unless the U.S. acted soon, Lebanon would collapse, and quickly. Jordan would follow soon. The U.S. was morally bound to go to the aid of Lebanon, and there was just the faintest chance that a quick movement of troops to Lebanon might bolster whatever resistance there might still be in Iraq. The President's advisers agreed that U.S. intervention would surely reap hot Russian and Nasserian...
...weakest spot in the work is the very end. The Allegro gives every intention of finishing in a rousing climax for all four instruments; but there follow a few more measures, petering out into some harmonics for solo 'cello. This seems a bad miscalculation...
...increases its commitment (now $2.8 billion) to the fund, other nations with strong economic positions, such as Canada and West Germany, will also have to follow suit. West Germany still has the original fund quota of $330 million, which was fixed before the country's astonishing industrial recovery. With $5.5 billion in accumulated foreign exchange and gold reserves, Bonn could well afford to double its quota in the fund. Since the German mark is as sound as the dollar, an increase in the German quota would greatly reduce pressure on the fund's U.S. dollars. The U.S. also...
...plays an actress-world-renowned, spectacularly attractive, loaded with money-who lives all alone, next door to Buckingham Palace, in an apartment the size of an armory, with nothing but a couple of dozen Picassos and Rouaults and Dufys to keep her company, and a devoted Rolls-Royce to follow her whenever she takes a walk. Grant plays a wizard of international finance -world-renowned, spectacularly attractive, loaded with money-who falls in love with the girl, and expresses his affection in those little things that women appreciate so much: yachts, paintings, diamond bracelets...