Word: iii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whose friends and relatives are fighting in Korea, I would like to make an appeal on behalf of the 2,000,000 reserves Turkey can raise in case of World War III . . . America has given almost $200 million to help arm the Turkish army. Turkey itself has spent more than half its budget for military needs for eleven consecutive years. But this is not enough. The 2,000,000 men Turkey will raise tomorrow cannot be armed and singlehandedly defend the Middle East on $100 per person. I urge Americans before it is too late to extend the scope...
With those words, President Truman moved the nation last week into a quickened mobilization to prepare the country either for World War III or a highly armed, wary era of uneasy peace that might last for years. On that night of Dec. 15, the President of the U.S. formally and finally recognized Communist Russia as a "great danger" to the peace of the world and the security of the U.S. In the 24 hours that followed, the President...
Haydn Society musicologists turned detective to put the score together. Haydn composed the opera in London in 1791 when he was 59, on a commission from the Prince of Wales (afterwards George IV). On the day of the premiere, King George III, who was sponsoring a rival theater and tiffing with the Prince, closed up the Orfeo theater with troops. Haydn pocketed his ?300, forgot the opera for the time being. Landon found one score in Berlin's State Library, another in the Esterhazy archives of Budapest's State Library, but both were incomplete. At one point...
...Russia makes a diversionary drive into Iran, Turkey, Germany, then we should recognize the existence of World War III and proceed to atomize Russia...
Last week fellow coaches, voting in the Scripps-Howard newspapers annual poll, handed Charley the laurel wreath of the profession: they voted him "Coach of the Year." With III first-place votes out of 384, he led Runners-Up Lynn Waldorf of California (50 first-place votes), Bud Wilkinson of Oklahoma (42), Bob Neyland of Tennessee (34), and 55 others...