Word: gun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legal, and that in his country our Air Force cannot use Jewish men and cannot permit any Roman Catholic Chaplain to say Mass. [Saud is not] the kind of person we want to recognize in New York City." This Wagnerian fortissimo did not dampen the Navy's 21-gun salute for the monarch in New York harbor. But it did win Wagner the back of the hand from President Eisenhower at his press conference (see below...
...were shooed out of Egypt. The case of the Israelis was less clear. They too had violated the Charter by attacking Egypt, and brought down on their heads the same clear-cut Assembly order to get out. But the Israelis refused to leave the Gaza Strip and the Egyptian gun positions on the Gulf of Aqaba without guarantees that the Egyptians would not again use the bases to raid and blockade them. The U.S. State Department, for one, thought the Israelis had some right on their side...
...Burning Hut. That afternoon the bloody scene was repeated again as more police, accompanied by a civilian posse of 150, bore down on the villagers. A civilian, armed with a gun, was beaten to death. The officer in charge was knocked to the ground and bitten by angry villagers as he lay dying...
...wouldn't have anything to do with all this, because these men, whatever they may be, are not Communists. They were all afraid to run. They thought Quirino would have them assassinated. So they all stayed in their foxholes and told me to take my Tommy gun and go out and fight for them." Privately, for all his public charges, Recto concedes that the Nationalists had to pick Magsaysay...
...prosperity, health and character to all children born during rainstorms. In Monaco's pink-walled palace, Princess Caroline Louise Marguerite, 8 lbs. 3 oz., uttered her first wail, set off a chain reaction including a radio broadcast by her nervous father, Prince Rainier III, 33, a 21-gun salute from two ancient cannon, harbor whistles, bonfires, street dancing and a torrent of free champagne. No longer would Monacans worry that Rainier would die without an heir, a catastrophe that might have eventually subjected them to France's high taxes and military draft as the prizes of a French...