Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Presidential Concurrence. Dulles turned the first questions about the Saudi tanks over to Under Secretary Herbert Hoover Jr., who handled the case in the Secretary's absence. Hoover's answers were firm. He had made the decision to hold up the tanks, then had made the subsequent decision 43 hours later to let them go. Why? Because charges in the press and on the radio had created doubt and confusion, and he wanted the people of the U.S. to be sure that "all of these matters would be thoroughly investigated." Had he discussed the problem with President Eisenhower...
...general in the White House McCarthy had only a sneer and a "presumption" that traitors still hold high posts in the U.S. Government. On this general theme McCarthy and seven other speakers of similar kidney, e.g., Indiana's Senator Bill Jenner, Indiana Lawyer Clarence Manion, steamed up the capacity crowd of 3,000 (collected by For America, a right-fringe political organization) for three hours. And at each and every mention of the name Eisenhower, the crowd responded with a resounding chorus of boos-a reminder that the U.S. has also always been blessed with its share of gassy...
...when Mao ordered him to take China's fragmented police forces in hand and transform them into a unified Communist whole. At that moment (the time of the U.S. State Department's White Paper, writing off China), much of the country was in chaos, the Communists' hold was anything but sure, and probably 60% of the existing police were ex-Nationalist holdovers. Simultaneously, Lo had to direct a series of armed struggles with guerrillas and bandit gangs which amounted to a nationwide extension of the civil war long after the outer world had been assured that there...
...challenge came from the second-largest party in his coalition, the right-wing Free Democrats. For months the Free Democrats have been muttering that Der Alte's foreign policy is "too rigidly" tied to the West. They saw their chance when Adenauer fell ill, and his iron hold on affairs loosened...
...stopped far short of redefining the professional's position in Israel. "To our leaders," said one indignant Israeli, "the illiterate in the transit camp is still just as good as the brain surgeon in Hadassah Hospital, which is an admirable point of view for the Lord to hold but a damn silly...