Word: lined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another. Overwhelmingly reelected, he had no sooner presented his program than his respected Treasury Secretary George Humphrey undercut him by publicly blurting out fears about a "hair-curling" depression; Ike failed to rebuke Humphrey, and the year's legislative battles were fought on the Humphrey, not the Eisenhower line. At Little Rock the President had the sad duty of sending federal troops into a state capital. And in those crowded days of September-October 1957, Sputnik I cast a dark shadow across the whole range of U.S. life, from national defense to scientific education...
...Knowland had been as inept a leader as was ever inflicted upon a President. In the House, Indiana's Charles Halleck, with White House blessings, ousted Massachusetts' aging Joe Martin as Minority leader, soon proved himself a whiplashing, gut-fighting leader who would go down the line for the Administration...
...this glossy French import, the gloomy patriarch of the dynasty (banks, refineries, mines, newspapers) is white-thatched Jean Gabin, a cold-eyed, cunning old autocrat. When men or industries get out of line, Papa Jean straightens everything out with a deft and ruthless hand. He arranges a wedding between an innocent man and his own ward when she gets pregnant by a Gabin employee. He bribes a high government official on behalf of a military relative. With high handed dispatch, he breaks up an affair between his luxury-loving cousin and a fifth-rate actress. Only when he gambles with...
...British airborne troops slammed at seven river and canal crossings between the Maas and the lower Rhine, starting Sunday, Sept. 17, 1944. In the biggest airborne attack of all time, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery had high hopes of hurdling the river barriers to outflank the Siegfried Line and thus end the war in Europe by a single-front thrust. Operation Market Garden failed. Though the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions won their objectives, the British ist Airborne met disaster, was chopped to ribbons by two German Panzer divisions in one of the European Theater's sharpest setbacks...
...eight, the battle still hammering in the outskirts, the British doctors got their last breath of hope when they looked out of an attic window across the eight flat miles that separated them from the main body of Montgomery's bogged-down army. They saw "an almost continuous line of flashes that illuminated the horizon like footlights." Said one surgeon: "Monty always begins his attacks this way. They should reach here tomorrow." Another replied: "About bloody time, too." Next day all was still. The barrage was a final concentration to cover the last retreat of ist Airborne...