Word: fullnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...director of the Office of Military Assistance (1949). As commander of the 11th Airborne Division (1950), he qualified after a week as a rated parachutist (five jumps) at 51. In Korea, Lemnitzer commanded the Seventh Infantry Division, won the Silver Star for gallantry in action, in 1955 took over full command of the United Nations Forces, succeeding Max Taylor, who had gone on to be the Army's Chief of Staff...
...Khrushchev now to cut off his promised aid for Nasser's Aswan High Dam would be to show all Asia and Africa that Soviet aid is in fact tied with strings. Though the Communists were now in control of Baghdad's streets, did they dare bid for full control of Iraq? If they did, could they avoid a new revolutionary situation, in which powerful Arabic emotions would be turned against them? Dare they risk the West's mistake of opposing Nasser in such a way as to strengthen...
...leaders sometimes find themselves operating in a kind of political no man's land between East and West. They often seem readier than conservative opponents to trade off elements of Western military strength in return for Soviet political concessions. It has not got them very far. Suslov was full of peace talk, but no more willing than Khrushchev to make any substantial compromises...
King Paul gave him the Medal of Bravery, and Parliament passed a law promoting Colonel Grivas to lieutenant general (only the King is a full general), awarded him full pay of $300 a month for life. Political parties besieged him to join them-but he put them off. First he had to rest, to have three teeth pulled and an injured finger treated...
Nyasaland. In the third and most primitive of the three federal states, the days were full of the sounds of new detention camps being built to hold African supporters of the volatile Dr. Hastings Banda (see box). Already 560 were being detained. Sir Roy has yet to reveal the evidence that there had ever been a black plot to massacre the whites-the major excuse in the first place for the wave of repression that had so far killed 50 Nyasa blacks but no whites. Neither had anybody proved that the blacks of Northern Rhodesia were about...