Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warning nets, and more powerful even than the energy of the atom." To foster that power he asked "federal help to correct an emergency situation." And he meant emergency. "After these new schools are built," he said, "after the bricks are laid and the mortar is dry, the federal mission will be completed...
Norman's tense trials in this job were just easing when the charge of Communism fell anew on him. In Washington the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee called in John K. Emmerson, deputy chief of the U.S. mission in Beirut, questioned him about Norman and the 1951 Wittfogel charges. Emmerson, who had worked with Norman in Tokyo and the Middle East, told the committee he had no reason to think that Norman had ever been a Communist. When Committee Counsel Robert Morris released the testimony, there was a new flurry of news stories...
...letters reflect an incredible enthusiasm for forging experience in the smithy of his soul, and sense of artistic mission that seemed to tear him apart and to make him a perpetually driven and tormented man. "It just boils down to the fact that there is no rest, once the worm gets in and begins to feed upon the heart. Somewhere long ago...the worm got in and has been feeding ever since and will be feeding till I die. After this happens, a man becomes a prisoner; there are times when he almost breaks free, but there is one link...
...mountain pass, Dadshah had been expecting the gendarmes to come after him. One day last fortnight, spotting a couple of jeeps crossing Tangeorkheh, the bandits opened fire, knowing that Iranian cops move by jeep. Instead this was a party of five, including two American members of a technical aid mission to Iran, 37-year-old Kevin Carroll of Issaquah, Wash, and Brewster Wilson, 35, of Portland, Ore. With Carroll's pretty young wife Anita in their party, they had started their trip across the desert without taking the routine precaution of telling the local gendarmery. Armed with a shotgun...
Avoiding Excesses. Simon's book drew a supporting protest from Nobel Prize-winning Roman Catholic Novelist Fran-gois Mauriac, followed by a solemn declaration signed by all French Catholic cardinals and archbishops warning "all those whose mission it is to protect persons and things" that "in the present crisis" they "have the obligation to respect human dignity and rigorously to avoid all excesses contrary to the law of nature...