Word: landed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maneuvered U.S. land-sea-air power across thousands of miles, stopped the Communists at the pressure points, slowed down the rate of Communist military adventurers when he warned the Communists that the U.S. would not necessarily meet the enemy on the enemy's chosen battlefields, but would "retaliate, instantly, by means and at places of our choosing...
This decidedly unpeaceful form of coexistence began two months ago, after Iran signed a defense agreement with the U.S. and broke off negotiations with Russia (TIME, March 9). In a land where millions are illiterate and hard pressed, where autocratic rule suppresses opposition and corruption is widespread, and where the long-term benefits of invested oil royalties are insufficiently visible, Communist lies and half truths so powerfully spread were bound to have an unsettling effect. After holding a special closed session to discuss the Soviet offensive, 48 of Iran's 60 Senators trooped to the Shah's marble...
...Land of the Free. It was the whites who brought the first large group of Asians to Africa rather than engage black workers on the building of the great Uganda Railway-"the two ribbons of rust," as Disraeli called it, "that stretch from the Indian Ocean to Lake Victoria." Natal landowners also began importing Indian "coolies" to work their languishing sugar plantations. In four years Natal's sugar exports multiplied 33 times. The indentured Indians became settlers in their own right, and other immigrants-the "free" or "passenger" Indians-flocked to make a new life for themselves...
...Clipper," coaxed Jessie while squeezing water from the streamer and getting her land legs...
...gate" of the book's title is taken from a Chinese poem in which a lonely man in a watchtower looks out across a barbarous and a desolate land. But it is also the gate at which the sentinels of civilization have always stood guard and always died in the end. The scene of this modern tale of horror is Africa, where the Roman watch fell to the Vandals 1,500 years ago, and where today the British guard is falling to nationalism. Whatever its accuracy as an omen, By the North Gate is one of the year...