Word: gens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RIAS, West Berlin's main radio station, and freely answered political questions fired at him by 300 assembled blueshirts. At the end of the two-hour session Peter Nellen, a member of the West German Bundestag, put a question to them: If the blueshirts were at home, would Gen. Vasily I. Chuikov, East Germany's Russian boss, face them in similar fashion? There was an embarrassed silence, a little laughter, and then a cry of "No!" In Berlin's torn city, kindness, coolness and candor had proved to be the most artful propaganda...
Largely due to a State House speech that rang more strikingly in millions of American ears than the far-off splashing of the Boston tea party, Gen. and Mrs. MacArthur received a tumultuous greeting from too to heel of Massachusetts...
...Marx turned Hegel upside down." (Gen...
...Lieut. Gen. Otto P. Weyland (rhymes with highland) succeeds Stratemeyer as commander of the Far East Air Forces...
Captain Matthew Rhem of the Signal Corps sent a greeting from Gen. Willis D. Crittenberger, commander of the First Army, to the armed forces throughout the world. The message circled the globe in one-eighth of a second and when it returned to Governors Island it activated a miniature atomic pile. The splitting uranium atoms then exploded a magnesium bomb, severing a ribbon to release pigeons from a coop. --New York Times...