Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...available to the free world; third, the resources, strategic positions and transit rights must be kept from slipping behind the Iron Curtain." The U.S. military could enforce these objectives, he added, because "I would say that the Russians are not going to start World War III now because they know they would be defeated if they did ... I would say that we are definitely superior in military power to the Communist bloc...
...public eye, Arkansas' John L. (for Little) McClellan is a cold-eyed, stone-voiced, racket-busting U.S. Senator. But his few close friends know him for a sensitive, compassionate man who keeps his feelings hidden deep because they have been so sorely tested by sorrow. McClellan's mother died bearing him; his first wife died after they were unhappily divorced; his second wife died in 1935 of spinal meningitis. Son Max, by the first marriage, also died of meningitis while serving with the Army in North Africa in 1943. And in 1949, three days after Max was reburied...
...future counterbalance to rampant nationalism spreading from the Mideast. Beyond such practical prospects, the vigorous, fit-at-48 African leader seemed to give his Nasser-stung hosts a timely, personal reassurance that they have not become the world's abominable rich uncle. He knew all there was to know about the evils of U.S. segregation because, as a young student just in from Africa's Gold Coast, he had waited tables and taught classes to pay his way through seven years (1935-42) at Pennsylvania's Negro Lincoln University-and later at the University of Pennsylvania...
...cherished plans to retire from the Senate and set up a law practice with John. But the blows also drew him closer to his surviving children, two daughters and a third son, James. Then young Jimmy went to the University of Arkansas law school. "I really didn't know what I wanted to be," said he, "but I wanted to be close to my father." The Senator made new plans. He established Jimmy in a practice, planned to leave Capitol Hill in 1960 and join the firm...
Into this poisoned atmosphere moved De Gaulle. Shrewdly distinguishing between the Tunisians' natural sympathy for Algerian independence and their own need for continued French economic support, De Gaulle withdrew French troops from southern Tunisia, pulled back to the French Mediterranean base at Bizerte and let Bourguiba know that he wanted his friendship...