Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with sarcasm. The periodic patrol flights along the Siberian coast were "peeping into other people's gardens." He denounced the "very stupid carelessness" of the first Navy reports. Said Vishinsky: "Accordingly, I say that this entire fairy tale about a poor Neptune being shot down . . . will certainly not hold water." Of U.S. reports that the plane was on weather and submarine patrol, he said: "It appears . . . this means practice in testing the radar strength and the radar installations [on the Siberian coast...
Dewey planned to make his decision public in June, but his last talk with Ives and a five-hour session with Attorney General Herbert Brownell (speaking for Dwight Eisenhower) persuaded him to hold off the announcement until this fall...
...months ago it seemed that the President was definitely on the defensive. The opposition shrieked with glee at what they termed the "Republican mess" in Washington. Mr. Eisenhower was denounced as "lacking in leadership" and unable to hold his party together. Some of the General's strong newspaper supporters assumed that his program was doomed to disaster. He was pictured by his opponents as bewildered, confused and dismayed...
Quemoy was once a haven for pirates who preyed on coastal shipping out of Hong Kong. While Chiang's forces hold it, the Communists cannot use Amoy, their best port on the southern coast. In 1949 the Reds tried to take the island with 15,000 men in junks from Swatow. The Nationalists beat them off and burned their junks. The Communists tried again, with 700 men, the following year, but this force got lost in bad weather, and Chiang's men captured 300 seasick Reds...
Rorty and Decter recognize the necessity of 1) a firm internal security system, and 2) congressional investigations of subversion. But they hold that Anti-Communist McCarthy has consistently used Communists' methods, e.g., the false charge of treason. In the process, they note, he has attacked a wide range of loyal and respected Americans, has seriously disrupted the operations of the U.S. State Department and the Army Signal Corps, and has diverted attention from the real problems of fighting Communism abroad...