Word: furthered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
"Sail When Ready." The Joint Chiefs of Staff needed no further notice to send the Sixth Fleet hurrying eastward from its peaceful anchorages in the Western Mediterranean. Admiral Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, issued the curt order: "Sail when ready." The Sixth Fleet sailed under the straight...
When it came down to the crucial moment, Nasser and the Syrians proved unwilling-or unable-to make an all-out effort to destroy Hussein. To do so would have forced an open split with King Saud, perhaps would have compelled him still further toward Iraq and the West. This...
Beaver's Bite. The British critics' chief target is the Independent Television Authority's commercial Channel 9, which is so U.S.-infected as to make BBC seem "a stern, inflexible nurse of home-grown talent." Johnnie Ray turned up as the star performer of Easter Sunday'...
Ti, who had himself barely-escaped from the massacre in the northern capital, hinted at storms and trouble, it was in such bucolic scenes as Cowherds Fleeing Storm. An even more extreme reaction to the mounting threat of further Chin and Mongolian attacks was the withdrawal of the Ch'...
Testimony that the South's Protestant churches have not totally ignored the race issue came from Dr. Herman Long, director of the race relations department of the Board of Home Missions of the Congregational Christian Churches. He estimated that there is a minimum of 160 unsegregated Christian churches in...