Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more, and sometimes he had less, prescience than other men. Four months before Pearl Harbor, he voted against an extension of the draft; two months later, he voted against a second lend-lease appropriation (as he had voted against the original lend-lease proposal); a month before Pearl Harbor, he voted against arming U.S. merchant ships; on Dec. 6, 1941, he demanded to know why a force of 2,000,000 men was justified. In that force, actually multiplied sixfold, Taft's four sons were to serve throughout...
Five o'clock-the buildings erupt: "My train, my bus, my subway, my ferry. Got a dime? Lend me a dime. See you tomorrow. I got to hurry, I miss my train. What time...
Apart from these minor divertissements, there are two things that lend this slow-paced, obvious picture some fun. One is the young playwright and his literary labor pains, written here & there with a real touch of wit. As the egocentric fellow in search of a wife who will thrill him, worship him, and make about $75 a week, Newcomer Tom Morton is effective, in a junior-Brando sort of way. The other redeeming feature is Tallulah Bankhead, as the star for whom Playwright Morton is trying to build a vehicle. She plays a bowdlerized version of herself, fancying herself demure...
Advance: Refugees. Utah's Republican Senator Arthur Watkins, sponsor of the Administration bill to admit 240,000 refugees from NATO and Iron Curtain countries, asked the President to lend a hand in the hard-fought battle to get the bill reported out against the stubborn opposition of Nevada's Pat McCarran and Idaho's Herman Welker. Ike invited Watkins and McCarran to the White House, flatly turned down McCarran's compromise proposal to admit 124,000 refugees. Bolstered, Watkins went back to Capitol Hill and got a Judiciary Committee majority (not including McCarran) to agree...
Chinese intervention transformed a "police action" into a major war-an "entirely new war," Douglas MacArthur called it. In the U.S., it provoked the bitterest soul-searching since the Lend-Lease decisions of 1940-41. The debate opened old sores and inflicted new ones all its own. MacArthur wanted to ease the strain on U.N. forces in Korea by a blockade of the Chinese mainland and by air attacks beyond the Yalu...