Word: mand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Distinguished Flying Cross for leading the first U.S. carrier strike of the war. A couple of weeks later he got a Navy Cross when his planes sank some Japanese ships in Torpedo Junction off the eastern Solomons. To ward the end of the war, he had com mand of the escort carrier Chenango when the ship earned a Navy Unit Commendation for operations off Okinawa...
...replied that he only meant Russia would shoot down any planes that flew along Soviet borders. "You send ships along our coasts and planes over Alaska," snapped Thompson. "We aren't interested in Alaska," said Khrushchev piously and then, abruptly, shifted to a renewal of his familiar de mand for a U.S. apology over the U-2 incident. Gesturing as if to stomp on Ambassador Thompson's foot, he declared: "If I step on your foot, you expect me to apologize. Why didn't you apologize for the U2? If you are strong, you can afford...
...Federation, he got promises of enough more troops to swell the U.N. force to 12,000 men by the end of the month. From Jerusalem, Hammarskjold dispatched lean-jawed Swedish Major General Carl Carlsson von Horn, 47, U.N. Truce Enforcement Chief along the Arab-Israeli borders, to take com mand in the Congo. To meet an impending public-health disaster created by the departure of all the Belgian doctors, Hammarskjold called on the World Health Organization and the International Red Cross to "stage a crash operation." From 10 capitals he got pledges of emergency food supplies, and from Washington, Moscow...