Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles-away, 1,500-plus thermonuclear bombers of Strategic Air Command. The key results of Admiral Holloway's power: i) Lebanon and nearby Jordan-buttressed by 2,000 British paratroops-were still untouched by the revolutionary fire in Iraq; 2) U.S. allies from Iceland to the Philippines got proof that the U.S. would deploy and fight if need be to save small friendly powers from subversion; 3) Arab nationalism, whether led by Nasser or not, had been shown that...
...primary, force a runoff with a tiny plurality of 427. Atkinson and the Gary machine fought wildly to catch up, but they could not match Edmondson's TV moxie or his nonstop attacks on Gary administration corruption. In last week's runoff, Edmondson brewed a high-proof majority of nearly 70%, carried 70 of the 77 counties...
History's judgment on the U.S.'s answer to Lebanon's cry for help would hang largely on what the U.S. did next. The troop movements were final proof that the U.S. was thoroughly committed to the Mediterranean. The long-range value of the whole effort could well be that, as a probing operation, it would enable the U.S. to decide quickly and precisely what its Middle Eastern objectives are and act accordingly...
...Museum of Modern Art-bucked the march toward abstraction, wrote that "the vast majority of today's painters, like victims of battle trauma huddled in dark and silent rooms, shun the real life that flows around them. They seem almost to have become terror-stricken of it-proof, perhaps, of T. S. Eliot's gloomy prediction that the world will not end 'with a bang but a whimper...
...with Tito and Nasser as attempted blackmail. The Greeks replied that they were merely conferring with a next-door neighbor and Balkan Pact ally (Yugoslavia) and a Mediterranean trading partner (Egypt, where 100,000 Greeks live). The Greeks were undoubtedly looking around for new friends, but this was hardly proof that they were running out on old ones...