Word: panama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abode of iron desolation, the great rivers in their beds like frosted steel; or the children at Christmas in the White House, "a thrill of ... exaltation and rapture ... to see all the gifts like a materialized fairyland arrayed"; or a trip in a battleship to Panama, and a petty officer's cry for "Three cheers for Theodore Roosevelt-the typical American citizen!" T.R. had liked that-"the way in which they thought of the American President...
...moved beyond policing to make one of the great decisions of his life. He sent the U.S.S. Nashville into the port of Colon in Panama to give implicit support to a Panamanian rebellion against Panama's colonial overlord, Colombia. His eventual intention, of course, was to seize or to negotiate possession of a canal zone in Panama, dig the canal, and that way safeguard the defenses of both coasts of the U.S. Said T.R.: "It was imperative ... of vital necessity...
...sometimes unwisely. Colonel John Nickerson, one of the Army's top men at Huntsville, wrote a violent criticism of Wilson's roles-and-missions order, sent it off to Congressmen and columnists (including Drew Pearson) and, for his pains, was court-martialed and sent off to the Panama Canal Zone...
...Last week Nickerson declined to comment on the Explorer's success. His wife had no such inhibitions. "He has orders not to comment on missiles," said she by telephone from Panama. "But I have no orders not to talk, and I think it's wonderful that the Army has lived up to all the things it promised...
...Panama's Jose Antonio ("Chichi") Remón became national police chief in 1947, made and unmade five Presidents, won a free election himself in 1952, was chopped down, at 46, by machine gun bullets at Panama City's old Juan Franco race track in January...