Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quiet Toughness. Late Wednesday David Ben-Gurion got a personal message from President Eisenhower. Its gist, as relayed by Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban, was that the U.S. had reached a stern decision: unless Ben-Gurion backed down and agreed to retreat from the Sinai peninsula as the United Nations asked, he could not expect any U.S. aid in the event of a Soviet attack. The White House had already made clear to Paris and London that the U.S. did not conceive its NATO commitment to include the Middle East or Cyprus if the Anglo-French persisted in their...
...Dayan, still sweaty and crumpled from the Sinai fighting, exuberantly declared: "The whole thing worked just the way we planned it. We planned it for six days, and it took just six. We really finished up the Egyptians in four days, but it took six to occupy the whole peninsula...
Israel, its hardy soldiers quickly masters of a peninsula twice the size of their own nation, did not even wait to mop up last Egyptian resistance before switching from Egyptian to Israeli currency in the Gaza Strip. After midnight Tuesday, little more than a week after the operation began, Israeli army GHQ announced: "The campaign in Sinai has ended . . . and there is no more fighting." At that moment, the British-French invasion of the Canal Zone was already under...
...worth of Harry Winston jewels, two Maximilian minks and five Main-bocher originals) through that hilarious old gin-rummy game, and asked a visiting U.S. Senator's wife: "You want to wash your hands or anything, honey?" She also marked the beginning of her social awakenings by defining "peninsula" as "that new medicine." As Harry Brock, the bullying baron, of junk who tries to buy the U.S. Senate, Paul Douglas was again, as he was for 1,642 performances on Broadway, superbly irascible and boorish...
Meanwhile, the Associated Press reported Israeli claims that the whole Sinai Peninsula--150 miles wide at the Mediteranean end and 230 miles deep--had fallen to a successful Israeli pincer movement. The 20,000-man Egyptian force guarding the area was reported in full retreat toward the Suez Canal, where landings by British and French paratroops were expected momentarily...