Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army paratroops, 70 Navy warships, 270 carrier-based Navy aircraft and 150 Air Force land-based aircraft into the Middle East within 72 hours began just before 2 o'clock one morning last week. Red-alert telephones jangled at the bedsides of the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-Chairman Nathan Twining, the Navy's Arleigh Burke, the Air Force's Thomas Dresser White, the Army's Acting Chief Lyman Lemnitzer (his chief, Maxwell Taylor, was on the West Coast on an inspection trip), the Marine Corps' Randolph Pate. The word from the Pentagon...
Minuses & the Plus. At 9:30 a.m. the Joint Chiefs met for the day's first joint session. Each officer was aware, out of years of military, diplomatic and economic study and experience, of the minuses of U.S. involvement in the oil-rich but base-poor volatile Middle East. The Air Force had run staff studies on locating strategic and tactical air bases in the Middle East, had come away convinced that the Middle East was so vulnerable to Russia's near-at-hand Ilyushin light bombers and tactical missiles that the U.S.A.F.'s strategic bombers ought...
...lost little time getting down to the serious business that prompted the visit. In the pine-paneled study of the Prime Minister's residence, Ike and Dief settled themselves in chintz-covered chairs, and for an hour and 35 minutes went over the problems of trade, tariffs and joint defense that they had agreed to discuss. Sitting in with their chiefs were Dulles and External Affairs Chief Sidney Smith, U.S. Ambassador Livingston Merchant and Canada's Ambassador to Washington, Norman Robertson...
...President's visit, his press secretary, James Hagerty, and Prime Minister Diefenbaker's press secretary, James Nelson, dropped the attending newsmen substantial tidbits of news. From one of the Ike-Dief sessions, they announced, came a decision to set up the Canada-U.S. Committee on Joint Defense. From another working session came an apparent solution to a problem that has irritated Canadians: the regulation of foreign sales of U.S.-controlled subsidiaries in Canada...
...jazz pros alike revered him. There was always too much booze, and when it failed to give him the kicks he needed, the dope pushers showed another way. At the end, Pool lost his virility, his musical control, his desire to live. He was alone, even when the joint was crowded. And he lived just long enough to hear a young newcomer blow him off the stand...