Word: ranges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a fortnight before, Douglas MacArthur had called on the Communists to meet him on the battlefield to negotiate peace in Korea. His statement had sent Washington, U.N. and Western European diplomats into a dither, and the world rang with demands that he be silenced or recalled...
...critical raves that greeted her prodigal return from Hollywood rang like a pressagent's dream of the perfect billboard. "Beautiful," sighed the Times's erudite Brooks Atkinson. "Captivating," cooed the Daily News's John Chapman. "Lovely," purred the World-Telegram and Sun's William Hawkins. Columnist Ward Morehouse urged all theatergoers to "hurry over to Henry Miller's and watch a lovely young actress at work...
...these privileges, members pay $3 a year. The restaurants, hotels and nightclubs* pay the club an average of 7% of its members' checks (tips are included only when the management agrees). Last month the club rang up a $10,000 profit before taxes...
...British Churchill tank destroyed in the defense of Seoul last year, past South Korean civilians whose tentative manseis showed their bewilderment over this latest thrust of armed forces through their countryside. There was little sign of the enemy. Occasionally a single rifle shot, or a flurry of shots, rang out. Once a jeep, hustling around a sweeping curve, hit a Russian-made wooden-boxed mine; in a thundering flash the jeep sailed into a roadside paddy field. One man was led, stumbling, from the wreckage; another was laid face down on a litter and quietly covered with a blanket...
...fall Mike was getting restless again. He tried with little success to beat out State Auditor Joseph ("Jumping Joe") Ferguson for the Democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate and the honor of being shellacked by Republican Bob Taft. He was already beginning to think about 1952 when the telephone rang last November and Washington offered him the OPS job. By coincidence, it was Eric Johnston who put Mike Di Salle up for the job-weeks before Johnston himself moved into the mobilization picture as Di Salle's immediate superior. Johnston had heard a lot about the Toledo mayor from...