Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever since has been bombarded by the Bulgars with pleas for renewing relations, but the U.S. State Department insisted that Bulgaria drop all charges against Heath (now Ambassador to Saudi Arabia). Bulgaria finally and formally did just that-whereupon the U.S. last week let the Bulgars reopen their mission in Washington, made plans to return to the U.S. legation in Sofia...
...Sept. 6, within the three-minute timing tolerance that orders prescribed, the rockets zoomed off, beautifully vertical. Then, mission accomplished, Task Force 88 steamed smartly into Rio for a well-deserved five-day spell ashore. To Admiral Mustin and Captain Gralla, the Navy decided to award the Legion of Merit. And from Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke came a radio message for all hands: "A most hearty well-done" for a splendidly fulfilled pioneering task...
...Mission to Moscow. Thus driven, Socialist leaders sometimes find themselves operating in a kind of political no man's land between East and West. They often seem readier than conservative opponents to trade off elements of Western military strength in return for Soviet political concessions. It has not got them very far. Suslov was full of peace talk, but no more willing than Khrushchev to make any substantial compromises...
Incredibly, 24 hours after their mission returned from Moscow, West German Socialists proclaimed anew their program for winning German reunification by military concessions. But there were signs that a disillusioned realism was settling over the German Socialist leadership...
...happens, they have chosen the wrong man for the wrong job. Slight, timorous and flaxen-haired, young Nikolai has goaded himself to an inner state just this side of madness. But when the moment comes, he has neither courage nor hatred enough for his mission. What happens is a tragicomedy of errors-conspirators' notes gone astray, the bomb lost, crashing non sequiturs to a near surrealist plot...