Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only was the release of Premier Bulganin's note on H-bomb tests released by Moscow before President Eisenhower had studied it, but the message itself referred none too subtly to the election campaign. Clearly its timing was calculated to make it an election maneuver...
...Army. Two years later he graduated at the top of the Army War College, too. After the siege of Fort Leavenworth was won, there was a grand celebration at the Hotel Muehlebach in Kansas City, with Ike roaring out Casey Jones and Abdul the Bulbul Ameer and receiving a note of congratulation from another officer upon whom the hand of history lay. The Command and General Staff school must be good, opined Major George Smith Patton Jr., if "A he-man can come out No.1...
...effect of Poland's assertion of independence echoed through the satellites despite the gingerly coverage by satellite radio stations. But the most curious reception was in Tito's Yugoslavia. There, old hands at this kind of intrigue took careful note of the appearance of Molotov...
...Sicily love, like honor, is a potent force, and one night when the larks were still in the mountains overhead and the dew was heavy on the cyclamen, Antonina lowered a note from her win dow on a long, silken cord. On it was written the single word "Giuseppe." Giuseppe received it on bended knee, unable to move for sheer adoration. The following Sunday, when Antonina's mother went to waken her daughter, she found her gone. "Those two young doves," said a villager as he told of it later, "had flown." That afternoon when the doves had returned...
...caused much shaking of heads and predictions of vocal perdition. But the newly glamorous Maria, thin, relaxed and even daring to taste the pleasures of the idle rich (she sang all night in a Vienna cafe last summer, for sheer pleasure), has lost not a decibel of power, a note of range, a mote of sweetness...