Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...added: "I'll see you over a beer in Quinhon after I finish this last flight. I've got plenty to celebrate. I'm going home next week, and this is my last mission...
Wilson, under pressure from his left wing and fearful of nuclear proliferation, was determined to head off the U.S.-sponsored multilateral force. It was on this urgent mission that he made his first trip to the U.S. as British leader. He half expected a rebuff from Lyndon Johnson; instead Johnson promptly agreed to postpone the whole idea, to Wilson's enormous relief...
This vice infected all three branches of the American mission in Vietnam. Junior officials in the field reported the situation as they saw it. Senior officials in Saigon more committed to Diem revised, sanitized, and in some cases buried their dispatches completely. Dissenting officers did not get to talk with visiting brass not have their views heard when they returned to Washington...
...executive officer of the flattop Hancock. When a kamikaze pilot plowed into the Hancock's flight deck off the coast of Japan in April 1945, Raborn got the deck patched up in four hours - in time to permit the carrier's planes to land safely from a mission. He won a Silver Star for his effort...
...gradually was lost at the casinos, and La Belle Otero grew old and wizened, reduced to living in a cramped room in the second-class Hotel Novelty. Mornings she marketed and fed the pigeons; on pleasant afternoons she strolled along the Promenade des Anglais. She said, "Women have one mission in life: to be beautiful. When one gets old, one must learn how to break mirrors. I am very gently expecting...