Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fall of Indo-China, he continued, would knock over Burma, then Siam, then the Malay Peninsula and Indonesia. This, in effect, would tumble the row of island defenses consisting of Japan, Formosa and the Philippines. To the south, it then threatened Australia and New Zealand. So, said the President, the possible consequences of the loss were just incalculable to the free world...
Indo-China, said he, is the kind of thing that must not be handled by one nation trying to act alone. We must have a concert of opinion, he said, and a concert of readiness to react in whatever way is necessary. You had a row of dominoes set up, said Ike, and you knocked over the first one, and what would happen to the last one was the certainty that it would go over very quickly...
With its ancient hand-carved beams, wide pegged floors,and hand-forged hinges, the house stayed solid and eminently habitable. But the city of Philadelphia, once so distant, finally grew out to the Shall-cross-Roberts house; the three acres remaining of the farm were almost surrounded by new row houses. The Robertses stubbornly refused to sell. Last year the itch for modernity got the better of grandson William I. Roberts III - he bought a new house in Levittown, Pa. and moved out with his son William I. Roberts IV. The old place seemed empty. Last week Owner Roberts...
...what he was made him of far greater interest to the U.S. newspaper-reading public: he had just been named the Mundt committee counsel, the man who would direct the investigation of the row between Joe McCarthy and the U.S. Army...
...seemed very small-scale, but the row in the enclaves had wider implications. The French have little practical use for the enclaves-they bring in no revenue and will cost $3,420,000 to run this year. But the French, who say they agree in principle to a referendum, do not want to grant these people easy freedom of choice for fear that this would encourage nationalists in North Africa to step up their own pressure for independence. For Nehru, on the other hand, the enclaves are a galling reminder that colonialism has not yet been pushed entirely...