Word: roome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANY QUESTION WHO WAS THE BOSS AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT AND THERE STILL ISN'T. HIS POWERFUL PERSONALITY STILL HOVERS OVER HIS SUBORDINATES. The conference room burst into loud and warm guffaws. But as the days, hours, minutes ticked by, a sense of unease-undimmed by Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty's reassurances-began to spread through the nation and the world...
...Nodular Implant. A few minutes before 8 o'clock Friday morning Dulles was wheeled into an operating room, put under anesthetic. Surgeon Heaton cut a small incision in the patient's groin to get at the hernia, kept his eye peeled for a sign of recurrence of the cancer. On the hernia sac he found a suspicious-looking nodular implant. He noticed, too, that a small amount of abdominal fluid was released after the sac was cut away. By Walter Reed's high-speed pneumatic tubes he shot the tissue and the fluid to the laboratory...
...Friend. Overnight, the nation's and world's fears mounted steadily. Why the delay in a report routinely quick in every up-to-date operating room? By Saturday morning the Walter Reed lab had made its final check. Heaton told Mrs. Dulles first. Then he told Dulles. Shortly before 9 a.m. the final word was passed to the President...
...House Committee on Foreign Aid, he led his committee abroad on a survey trip, laid much of the groundwork for the Marshall Plan legislation. So strict were Herter's rules that once, when the committee was traveling abroad, a sign appeared in the Queen Mary's lecture room: "Here sat the Committee on Foreign Aid/And worked like hell while the others played...
...original chill flagstone; their mattresses are made of coarse coconut fiber; more often than not, their daylight filters in through heavily barred fortress windows eight feet up. Aside from chapel, most prisons have no assembly halls, and today more than 6,000 men sleep three to a room in cells originally intended for solitary confinement. What Rab Butler is after is nothing less than a head-to-toe overhaul of the whole penal system...