Word: forwarder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Appropriated $2,790,824,816 for foreign aid, after adopting a $200 million slash put forward by South Carolina's Burnet Maybank. The Senate's total is $100 million below the House appropriation, $264 million below the program authorization, $648 million below the President's request...
...start World War III over a "faraway island" governed by one whom 71-year-old Clement Attlee calls "an old man [commanding] aging forces." By this time (if old patterns repeat themselves), the U.S. will be made to seem a warlike power, and Chou En-lai will step forward, ready to settle everything-if only he is given Formosa or a free seat...
...Only those armed forces in "covering zones" (forward zones of defense) would be under supranational control.This would leave only six of the 14 French divisions assigned to NATO under EDC control, but most if not all of the twelve proposed German divisions would be under...
...deadline. He was promising only an Assembly decision next week; the Senate would not get to the debate until the summer recess ends in October or November-and during this additional period, Mendès reassured the left wing of his majority, Russia would have time to come forward with genuine concessions in Western Europe if it wanted badly enough to halt German rearmament. So Russia too was being offered an alternative. All in all, Mendès' plan was devious, perhaps too devious. Le Figaro, bellwether of French conservative opinion, called it "full of intellectual seduction" but "fragile...
...hill in Port Lyautey's medina is a dusty sheep market. Legionnaires drove the Arab men there and herded them under the muzzle of a Patton tank. A dozen policemen formed a gauntlet, six on either side. One by one, the Arabs were thrust forward, each with his hands on his head...