Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, and Premier Otto Grotewohl's regime needs bolstering. At ceremonies celebrating the return of the loot, Grotewohl orated: "In saving all these priceless sculptures and paintings from destruction, while American bombers reduced Germany's cultural centers to rubble, the Soviet army once again demonstrates its noble mission and its high ideals." Nonsense, commented one high museum official behind his hand. "The Russians simply confiscated everything...
...MISSION ACCOMPLISHED (200 pp.)-Mongo Beti-Macmillan...
...most headlines focused on Chiang's no-force declaration in the joint communique issued at the end of Dulles' visit: "The Government of the Republic of China considers that the restoration of freedom to its people on the mainland is its sacred mission [and that] the principal means of successfully achieving its mission is the implementation of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles, and not the use of force."* Free China spokesmen later insisted that this declaration did not bind Chiang to hold back if a Hungary-type uprising broke...
...planes, mostly jets. Their bombing force-about equal in number to that of the U.S. Strategic Air Command-consists of about 1,500 jets and turboprops. Most of this force is shortrange, but the U.S.S.R. has developed inflight refueling techniques that provide enough range to make round-trip missions to the U.S. And though their Bison and Badger bombers are inferior to the U.S.'s B-47s and B-52s (and Russian airplane maintenance and crew-training are low grade), the criterion of a good bomber is not how well it stacks up against the other fellow...
...make his offer; as always, he remained the man above party. In the coming elections, he said, he would "not disapprove" of any party's support, nor would he discourage opponents who "will make use of the liberty they accuse me of wanting to destroy." But his mission ruled out his taking any particular party's side. "This impartiality obliges me to insist that my name, even in the form of an adjective, not be utilized by any group or candidate." Nevertheless, politicians of almost every stripe tumbled all over themselves to win, if not his name...