Word: hq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Constitution Avenue is HQ of the AEC, headed by Gordon Dean, a 46-year-old lawyer (see box). No scientist, Dean was teaching law and running his 44-acre fruit ranch in California in 1949 when he was called to serve as a member of the commission under David Lilienthal, its first chairman...
...made no bones about it; it longed for peace in Korea. As Eisenhower's HQ expressed it: "Naturally, everyone would like to see an end to the fighting...
...infantry engineers helped the two men from the wreckage. The pilot was injured. Moore walked away. His knee bothered him, but otherwise he seemed none the worse. But as he sat in a division artillery HQ, his heart failed. Death came to Major General Moore...
...November 1941, British commandos under 24-year-old Lieut. Colonel Geoffrey Keyes made their way 200 miles behind Axis lines in an attempt to capture or assassinate Nazi General Erwin Rommel. At night, with cork-blackened faces, Keyes and his commandos achieved complete surprise, wrecked Rommel's HQ with grenades. But Keyes was killed and Rommel was untouched: he had gone to a birthday party...