Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question remained: Which Nationalist-held islands, other than Formosa and the Pescadores, would the U.S. defend? Washington did not say. It was assumed that the Joint Chiefs of Staff were deciding that right now; in order to keep the Reds guessing, they might not make their decisions public...
...politicos listened, then decided that Stevenson's "perhaps" policy was not the meat on which successful campaigns feed. Forty assembled candidates for Congress issued a joint statement: "We still stand squarely behind price supports at no less than 90% of parity...
...General Van Fleet had them on the run and he could have taken them and he wasn't permitted to do it. That is not American. And who did itI don't know. I know that General MacArthur's hands were tied, not by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but by the then State Department. I make that as my opinion, and I still believe...
...Eight members of New York's Joint Legislative Committee on Problems of the Aging reported last week that Hollywood is the "archfoe" of the elderly. Reason: movies portray old age as "a trap, a pit, a hopeless end,'' and glorify "teenage super-beauties as the American ideal." Objectionable oldster types, according to State Senator Thomas C. Desmond, 63: Lionel Barrymore (as a cantankerous oldster), Billy Burke (as a rattlebrain). Objectionable youngster types, "the type of youth glorification that makes it difficult for older women to find a useful, happy place in modern life": Lana Turner, Marilyn Monroe...
...Sent the Atomic Energy bill back to joint Senate-House conference for further revision. Democrats charged that the bill's patent and licensing system denied preferred treatment to public and cooperative electric power organizations and would encourage private atomic energy monopolies. On a vote of 48 to 41 they won their point...