Word: resigned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Take Denmark, suggested Professor Urey. If Russia wanted to persuade Denmark to resign from the North Atlantic pact, he said, it could simply slip a tramp ship into Copenhagen harbor with an a-bomb in the hold. At the right psychological moment, the word could be passed to the Danes at their capital was on the verge of being blown up. "If this sort of thing happens in Europe," said Urey, "it is going to be increasingly difficult to keep these people in the Atlantic pact and there will be perhaps a serious move to alienate the members . . . before this...
...merkel's farm, smashed and scattered farm tools, opened chicken coops and rabbit hutches. some of them broke down the heavy door of the farmhouse and seized Farmer Merkel. He was beaten and kicked until he signed a paper admitting that he was a "saboteur" and agreed to resign his local offices n the Christian Democratic Party. that night, Merkel and his wife and daughter left their snug farm and, carring only a rucksack apiece, set out on foot for the safety of the West...
...Washington, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, ailing since last October, said he would resign from the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy as a start on taking things easier. No, he was not thinking of a Florida vacation: "I would just be on the phone every morning at 7:30 to find out what's going...
Gordon Gray went off to World War II as a private. He came out a captain, and was later appointed Assistant Secretary of the Army. Last spring Gordon Gray decided to resign, move his wife and four boys back to North Carolina and accept the deanship of his alma mater's up & coming business college. President Truman scotched his plans by persuading him to stay on as Secretary of the Army...
...Dwyer was back in Florida for some more rest to fight the virus infection that laid him low shortly after his reelection last November. In a long-distance telephone call from Key Largo to cronies in Manhattan's City Hall, he denied that he planned to resign because of poor health. Eleanor Roosevelt and Sister Kenny were named by a Gallup poll as the two women most admired by the U.S. public. Others, in order of finish: Clare Boothe Luce, Helen Keller, Madame Chiang Kaishek, Margaret Truman...