Word: known
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Symbol. The next job was to make his decision known to the nation. Next morning, as U.S. marines were landing on the beaches of Lebanon, Ike authorized Press Secretary James Hagerty to tell newsmen, followed this up with a message to Congress and a filmed address that was telecast and broadcast across the country. "It is recognized that the step now being taken may have serious consequences," he told Congress bluntly. "I have, however, come to the considered and sober conclusion that despite the risks involved this action is required to support the principles of justice and international law upon...
...thick of it, in the Marianas, the China Sea, the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Forty years in the Navy have rubbed the undisciplined edges off Scripture-quoting Cat Brown, but they have not blunted his claws. While he is perhaps the U.S.'s smoothest and most widely known diplomat in Mediterranean countries, he keeps the Sixth Fleet ready and able to serve as a massive instrument that can deliver atomic destruction-or the threat of it-anywhere, even to Moscow...
...Known as a leading anti-British cadet at Cairo's Royal Military Academy, Nasser graduated as a second lieutenant and was sent to command a platoon at a post up the Nile. It was the year of Munich, the year of Arab-Jewish rioting in Palestine, of U.S. company oil discoveries in Saudi Arabia...
...Short Stop. When Kent was born, no way was known to relieve a condition like his. But when he was three, Dr. Glenn's team at Yale School of Medicine began experimental operations with a little black and white mongrel. Of the two great veins carrying blood back to the heart, they tied off the upper one and diverted its flow directly into the pulmonary artery leading to the right lung-thus bypassing the right side of the heart. The dog got along fine. When Kent Murray, now seven, entered the hospital last February, Dr. Glenn was ready...
...social protest is shown (here) ... where the writer's plea for sympathy with the man who gets off with girls in cinemas is a pill covered under about sixteen layers of sugar." True, the play was originally intended as a dramatization of the actual case of a well-known British actor with a taste for young men. But the result, watered down though it be, still has a point; and Rattigan, with a sure ear for dialogue, makes it clearly and movingly...