Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Artful Ally. De Gaulle's cool and correct independence was a welcome relief from the stereotyped and sterile unity in which Western responses are often couched. As an old connoisseur of insults, Khrushchev seemed appreciative of De Gaulle's, and was probably hopeful that he might have driven a wedge between the U.S. and France. De Gaulle's message delighted the French, who noted that De Gaulle had dispatched Couve de Murville to Rome and Bonn to line up continental countries behind his plan to speak for Europe at the summit. There was even the suggestion that...
...case itself was pockmarked with the legalisms in which the U.N. delights. Before the Iraqi coup, the U.S. had been determined to stay out of Lebanon, even greeted with relief the findings of the U.N. observers and the possibility of some domestic compromise.* Now, in the face of U.N. reports that no conclusive evidence existed of massive outside infiltration, the marines had landed...
...Parliament of Arab Morocco, where the U.S. has air bases, "forcibly denounced" the intervention. But Premier Abdullah Khalil of the Sudan, who is under constant pressure as Nasser's southern neighbor, expressed his "overwhelming joy," described the landings as "the turning point towards stability." And in Turkey the relief at the U.S. action was so unrestrained that Turkey's Baghdad Pact partners, Iran and Pakistan, had to appeal for caution. Turkish Foreign Minister Fatin Rustu Zorlu wanted to march into Iraq, where some 100,000 Turks live...
...Israel the public's first reaction to the Iraqi coup-"When do we march?"-gave way to relief after the Lebanon landing. Austria, which got its independence by promising to be neutral, protested the flight of Mideast-bound troops over its territory...
...ninth inning the San Francisco Giants trailed Philadelphia 7-5, and faced the awesome task of making up the deficit against the Phillies' Dick Farrell, best relief pitcher in the National League. But not a fan stirred to leave Seals Stadium. Instead, the crowd settled back expectantly for the last of the ninth...