Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Chinese mainland fell to the Communists in 1949, the British crown colony of Hong Kong overnight became the biggest news center in the Far East. To British colonial officials, the influx of newsmen was a nuisance. They gave out as little information as possible about any untoward "incidents." Hong Kong, they felt, was a conspicuous testing ground for the dream of peaceful coexistence, and the fewer inflammatory news stories that got out the better...
...something for the "little fellow" fell to Colorado's Gene Millikin. whose Finance Committee had reported out the revision bill. The next morning Millikin padded into the Senate, got the attention of the chair, asked the clerk to read a spanking new amendment his staff had pieced together overnight. (It would give a $20 tax credit to every individual not benefiting from other provisions of the bill.) Tennessee's Albert Gore wanted to know why Millikin had been so late in introducing his amendment. What was the motivation? Blandly, Millikin made his reply: "The motivation of the sequence...
...failed by 13 votes. But his speech, blunt, sometimes eloquent, always incisive, raised him from the role of gloomy, intellectual Cassandra to the stature of a national figure. Overnight he became, in his own unblinking eyes, a man of destiny. "I have created a hope and trust in the country," he said. "It is now my duty to honor this hope and trust...
...nation. But 2,000,000 less experienced housewives, who had never before managed without ration books, were frankly baffled at the richness of the new territory that opened before them. TV screens worked overtime showing the subtle differences between top ribs and shell bones. Newspaper columnists turned epicure overnight, and at the Times Bookshop in Wigmore Street, the 93-year-old Mrs. Beeton's Cookbook, with its cautious presumption that eight pounds of steak should be enough to serve eight persons, once more took top place in the interest of browsers...
...earned 29 decorations and four stars along with his scars. He fought through ten campaigns, commanded every unit from platoon (45 men) to division (20,000) in combat, and led the first big Marine victory in the Pacific (on Guadalcanal, where his 1st Marine Regiment killed 1,000 Japanese overnight on the Tenaru River). Perhaps his hardest fight came after the war, when President Truman and Pentagon brass tried to make the Marines a lightweight police force...