Word: maneuverers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then there was the matter of torpedoes. U.S. submariners will never forget one of the great hushed scandals of the early days of World War II: faulty torpedoes. Time after time, intrepid submarine skippers would maneuver into dangerous Japanese waters, line up a shot, and then watch through periscopes while...
But no matter how the vacancy is filled, there is little chance that organization of the Senate will be affected. Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson, the Democratic floor leader, and his advisers decided before Bob Taft died that they want to keep their present minority role through 1954. It enables...
It was not until the Shields family moved to Sydney, Nova Scotia, in 1901, that young Corny got out in his first boat. His father, by then the president of the Dominion Iron & Steel Ltd., bought his family a 15-footer. In that, and in a later 25-ft. Class...
Ambitious Patience. By "democratic centralism" within the Communist Party, Lenin had hoped-not very optimistically in his last days-to prevent a continuance of a personal dictatorship like his own. Rising to power by subterfuge and maneuver, Stalin destroyed every man of stature within his reach, at the same time...
Peeling off in a split S, the four Sabres screamed into a dive. Flight Leader Major Vermont Garrison, 37-year-old World War II ace who is known as "the greying eagle," leveled out at 2,000 ft. on the tail of a MIG. After a quick burst from the...