Word: pressinger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But once the committee doors swung shut, Acheson's questioners, Republican as well as Democratic, settled into the attitude of grave decision that had dominated the investigation from the start. The Republican members, however noisy the blood cries of their colleagues outside, were courteous, dispassionate and earnestly in search...
"About then we noticed that our diamond man [plane in last position in the formation] was burning. His No. 3 engine was on fire. We turned out to the coast to cover him, and he pulled under us. Later, the boys saw chutes come out of the 29 below. The...
From Alexander the Great's victory at the Granicus (334 B.C.) to Gettysburg and on to the Battle of Midway, military commanders have often been criticized for failing to "exploit the retreat"-that is, for not pressing after a beaten enemy. No such reproach could be made against Lieut...
After long days of earnest decorum the harsh, bitter squalls of politics rolled into the quiet chamber where 26 U.S. Senators were considering high policy and General MacArthur. The witness was General of the Army Omar Bradley, five-star chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Wisconsin's Alexander...
Caught unprepared, Shinwell sputtered that Blackburn was "inaccurate ... for several months now we have placed an embargo on the export of strategic raw materials to China." But Blackburn was not wrong. He harried Shinwell with data from the government's own Board of Trade. Example: British Malaya had sold...