Word: ordered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attaching "ideological strings" was a tendency of governmental aid, and recommending that that all federal aid should be held suspect, the report exceeded its mandate to report on the NDEA an delivered a thinly veiled attack on the concept of federal aid to education. The Council was right to order the new committee to "tone it down...
...within nine minutes after the U.S. cruiser Denver fired the first shot in the bombardment that prepared the way for MacArthur's amphibious attack, the Japanese naval command radioed: SHO1 OPERATION ALERT. Next morning came the order: EXECUTE. The Japanese fleets began converging on Leyte Gulf and the four mighty engagements that lay ahead...
This surge of interest in the armed support of law and order calls for a combined budget of upwards of $1,250,000 a week-a bankroll that supports sleuths ranging from a corn-fed country operative named Hannibal Cobb, who appears in five-minute syndicated slices, to a brand-new sunburned entry, Hawaiian Eye, with a mixture of lets and lead, and a full hour on the screen. As the corpses pile up in the living room, citizens who know crime only from the tabloids follow the Eyes like men on the trail of their most desperate hope...
...vote. The result was near-paralysis. As one delegate said: "It was not just a case of the jets v. the jetless. The voting was all over the lot by chaps with pistons, chaps with turboprops and chaps with both, not to speak of some who have jets on order and are now beginning to wonder how they are going to pay for them...
...Around. Being poor no more, Bob Ruark can and does travel where he likes, maintains a house in London and two in Spain, is an ilustrisimo Knight Commander of Spain's Order of Civil Merit. Not the least of the Knight's luxuries is a former sergeant-major in the British army named Alan Ritchie, who serves him as secretary, listens to his plots develop, and transcribes Ruark's massive manuscripts...