Word: knee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...south to him from the Communist North, and a Confucian ballet performed by 32 silk-clad girls. Diem also impressed the villagers by his coolness when his ceremonial barge, overloaded with admirers who clambered aboard, capsized and sank in the river near Hué. "Ladies first," Diem insisted from knee-deep in the river, when rescuers put out from shore...
White has lost the services of Dan Ullyot, a defenseman and another Minnesota native, who will undergo a knee operation which will sideline him for the season...
...John Foster Dulles has wanted, almost all his life, the job he now holds. He learned his first lessons in international relations at the knee of his maternal grandfather, John Foster, who was Secretary of State in Benjamin Harrison's Cabinet and who helped negotiate the 1895 treaty that ended the Sino-Japanese War. At 19, he was secretary of China's delegation at the Second Hague Peace Conference; at 30, he served on the Reparations Commission at Versailles. Between the wars he had a brilliant legal career. In 1941 he got the Federal Council of Churches...
...before Christmas, the vote on German rearmament was announced: "Rejected by 259 for, 280 against." Mendes, sitting with his hands clutching one knee, barely moved. The Communists clapped. The rest of the Assembly sat in stunned silence. From the back benches came an audible whisper: "Perhaps that was going too far." Coldly and scornfully, Mendes told the Assembly: "You have just emitted a vote which is bad for the country." To repair what damage he could, he demanded immediate votes on other Paris agreements...
...about himself. Their proof: McCormick's eight-year-long campaign to get better care for children struck by tuberculosis. "Get this straight," explained McCormick defensively. "I ain't no do-gooder. I don't go out to the hospitals and dandle those kids on my knee. But something had to be done about...