Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will no longer deliver arms to an Arab nation sworn to wipe out Israel. (Shortly before the coup, the U.S. delivered five jets to Iraq.) But the remaining members of the pact-Britain, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan-were shaken by Iraq's defection, and the Moslem nations in particular demanded dramatic proof of U.S. support...
...people borrow more books than ever. Once they defined the wet summer's cause, meteorologists last week volunteered more bad news. The stubborn planetary winds show no sign of changing their tactics. Early August forecast for the northern U.S. east of the Rockies and for mildewing Midwesterners in particular: more rain...
...responsibility. Piqued at first at being excluded from the U.S.-British foray into the Middle East, the French had been congratulating themselves ever since. "It saved France from making a blunder," said Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. The French quickly saw in their accidental neutrality in this particular conflict a splendid chance to play procedural arbiter between West and East, and so to re-establish France among the top diplomatic powers. The situation suited lofty Charles de Gaulle...
Adolf Hitler's brutal deputy, Martin Bormann, was notorious for his hatred of religion, took particular care that "none of my children gets depraved and diseased by the poison of Christianity." In 1945 Deputy Führer Bormann's son Martin, 15, was sent off to war in the Brenner Pass area as a member of the Hitler Youth "Werewolf" volunteers. In the Nazi holocaust, Party Leader Bormann vanished. Last week it became plain how completely Bormann had failed to guide his son along his own paths. After studying for nine years, Martin Bormann, 28, was consecrated...
...establishment, worldwide, was put into a state of "improved readiness." Leaves were canceled. The Navy was put on a four-hour alert; i.e., all ships not in major repair were to be ready to sail on four hours' notice. The Air Force's Strategic Command needed no particular word. Said one high U.S. officer about SAC: "It was ready, brother, believe...