Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line, he said, but the U.S. "had command of the water and the air...[and] unexcelled bases in Japan and Korea for redeployment...We had the tremendous skill of the Japanese industrial nation, employed as civilians...It could not possibly be made or altered any better." Admiral Charles Turner Joy, agreeing, added: "The Navy could not have fought in a more favorable distant area...
...made error upon critical error, according to the witnesses. The day Chinese "volunteers" swarmed across the Yalu, testified General Mark Clark, "we should have indicated that we were at war with Red China." Attacking Manchurian bases, however, might have triggered a world war. "It might have," said Clark, with Joy concurring. "I do not think it would have...I do not think you can drag the Soviets into a world war except at a time and place of their own choosing. They have been doiqg^too well in the cold...
...chief of the U.N. truce-talk delegation. Turner Joy had been most bitter about Washington's order to accept a November 1951 Communist proposal to fix the battleline at that time as an armistice line. This, he said, "would constitute an immediate cease-fire on the basis of agreement on one item only of the agenda. Thus, the Communists would be insured against effects of future military operations while other agenda items were being discussed...General Ridgway strongly requested reconsideration of Washington's instructions...
...many regions there is no timber [but] Kazakhstan is very rich in reed plants. This is very good material for the construction of houses." For the fainthearted, Khrushchev had a word of warning: "We will see you off with honor, but we won't welcome you back with joy. You must settle there firmly, once and forever. For this purpose it is desirable that you should marry there...
Wooden Expression. Most admen agree that the new look in announcers was started by Ed Sullivan of Toast of the Town. Despite his wooden expression and lack of announcer's glibness, Sullivan does the sort of job that makes any sponsor swoon with joy. He spends much of his offscreen time racing around the nation on the dedicated work of selling Lincolns and Mercurys. He addresses regional meetings of auto dealers ("I explain that we're all part of a team'') and will show up in Portland. Ore., for its Rose Festival or Memphis...