Word: orly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"The task ahead is not for the fainthearted," said the President. "The world must learn to work together-or finally it will not work at all."
Change. As he threaded cheerfully among the guests at a birthday reception, urging his friends to take bites from a piece of cake, the remarkable fact was that he looked less than ever like a political patriarch or a wise (or wizened) old man. The years had marked him in...
"Oh hell, let's go!" exclaimed New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, closing a mid-September strategy huddle. "I want to do it, and regardless of what I do or don't do the speculation will continue." His mind made up, his plans well laid, Rockefeller last...
At 0630, Oct. 25, the Seventh Fleet's 16 escort carriers-"baby flattops"-of Rear Admiral Thomas L. Sprague's Task Group 77.4 were operating off Samar without knowing that 1) Halsey had taken off after Ozawa or 2) Kurita had come through unguarded San Bernardino Strait and...
But the point where Washington feels most strongly that it is time for a change is in the field of foreign aid. With the original postwar objective of setting Europe back on its feet handsomely achieved, the bulk of U.S. aid already goes to underdeveloped nations; in the future even...