Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clashes, 150 rebels and 60 royal soldiers were killed. Held off on land, the Crown Prince commandeered smugglers' craft in Tangier harbor 175 miles awa)', hired a British-owned ferryboat, and landed troops at Alhucemas by sea. Commercial aircraft of Royal Air Maroc were pressed into service to transport supplies, despite the protests of the French pilots who were forced to fly them...
...hammocks and met Christopher Columbus, crying: "Peace, we are friends." A quarter of a century after Columbus' first voyage to the New World, Cuba's gold and precious woods adorned Madrid, and many Indians had died of overwork and by their own hands. Blackbirders slid into Havana harbor with Negro slaves, and on their wretched backs rose an elegant, sugar-based society of stately mansions...
...thousand ghastly bullet holes." Spain's efficient, Prussian-descended General Valeriano ("The Butcher") Weyler, the elegant Marquis of Tenerife, decreed that the noncombatants be rounded up into huge concentration camps. In Havana province alone, 50,000 prisoners starved to death. After the U.S.S. Maine exploded in Havana harbor, the U.S. outcry brought a declaration of war, sent the Marines and Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders to free Cuba...
Party Regularity. Conservative and isolationist by background (he voted against fortification of Guam and against the draft just before Pearl Harbor, still has to defend the votes in every election), Halleck soon broke with the defeated Willkie on foreign policy, but not before he outraged Indiana's Taft regulars by revealing a key political trait: in the interest of party unity and strength, he would battle for men and policies far more liberal than himself. His party-first drive, tirelessly applied after he became chairman of the Congressional Campaign Committee in 1943, paid off by 1947 in the party...
Halleck was the only man with a chance to oust Martin. He had the argument of experience (majority leader while Martin was Speaker in the 80th and 83rd Congresses). And his voting record oscillated enough to please both conservatives and liberals (isolationist until Pearl Harbor, strong backing for the war effort afterwards; firm opposition to Administration-backed social welfare measures until 1953, warm support of very similar measures afterwards...