Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cricket "blue."; Gazetted an officer in the British army, he fought with the Cameronians (2nd Scottish Rifles) at Kohat in 1921 and with the 17th Poona Horse in Waziristan in 1924. He was Britain's top policeman in the Khyber Pass area for 20 years before becoming Joint Secretary of the Indian Government Defense Ministry at New Delhi, and, after the partition of India, Pakistan's first Defense Secretary...
...whirl, Bolivia's President Victor Paz Estenssoro flew 665 miles northwest to Lima one day last week. It was a historic occasion. Ever since Chile defeated them in the War of the Pacific (1879-83), Peru and Bolivia have sullenly blamed each other for their joint misfortune. But from the moment that Peruvian President Manuel Odría gave him a big abrazo at the airport, Paz Estenssoro was treated like a long-lost brother. Bands played, a Cadillac convertible drove the Presidents through cheering throngs. Paz responded: "Peru and Bolivia have an ancestral unity . . . There...
...praised Eisenhower's "eloquent" proposal, and was "deeply moved by the sincerity and warm feeling for peace," was a little miffed. Such sweeping proposals do not accord with the traditional British diplomatic search for limited objectives. Eden submitted his own "more modest" proposal-a "simple" system for joint inspection of Communist and Western forces now confronting each other in Europe. Once more, while the news of the Eisenhower plan flashed around the world, the conference returned to its pre-ordained ways. Eden's modest proposal was for a "practical experiment" in "operative inspection of armaments." Thus a zone...
...plan got its start a year ago among a group of young Air Force officers, who were bemoaning the thinness of U.S. intelligence about Russia. The airmen did not know it, but their idea soon traveled up to the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...minutes we were calling each other by first names." That same day an application came from thrice-married Lord Stanley of Alderley, 47, a baron who knows the U.S. well. He endeared himself to Vicki by inviting her to the House of Lords so she could "case the joint," as he put it. When she emerged, having taken in many peers and a spot of tea, she announced: "I saw an awful lot of lords, but I couldn't get near them, and naturally I couldn't ask Lord Stanley who they were because he's after...