Word: return
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many cases, doctors say, it is possible for the patient to return to work, especially in persons of advanced years. Dulles will...
...their efforts to stamp out patron saints in the U.S. Army. With the Army courts-martial and delinquency rate being reduced and prisons being closed after a general improvement of G.I. standards, it is apparent that soldiers are close to becoming respectable citizens. Perhaps we could foster a return to those classic pastimes of the soldier: booze, babes and brawls...
Determined to win the return of the eleven men-dead or alive- the U.S. decided again to hold back public release of the damning evidence. Instead, the State Department privately confronted the Russians with the recording, hoping that the Soviets would settle the incident quickly to avoid worldwide condemnation. Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy tried it first, called Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov into his Washington office. "Smiling Mike" refused to listen to the recording, but Murphy handed him a Russian transcript. Result: silence...
...rule out an easy repetition of the electronics-backed Berlin airlift, but the British feel that public discussion of blockade-busting devices should be confined to airlift talk. Behind the scenes, the British government has agreed in principle to the use of an armored column if necessary; in return, the U.S. has scaled down the size of the ground forces it originally contemplated using if necessary to keep open the supply routes to West Berlin. Britain and the U.S. agreed to discuss a thinning out of NATO troops if the Russians thin out theirs in East Germany. Poland and Czechoslovakia...
...trip last August was to London in pursuance of a simple but ingenious scheme for raising money: Hume planned to rob a bank close to the international airport and then return to the Continent on a commercial plane for which he had made a reservation. Hume chose a branch of the Midland Bank in a quiet side street in Brentford, outside London. He shot down a bank clerk, scooped up some $3,000, and was in an airplane and winging his way over the Channel before Scotland Yard had a physical description of the robber. Three months later he duplicated...