Word: sabers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...text which he had written out during the afternoon. Said he of the NATO meeting: "There was one basic purpose implicit in every discussion and debate of the conference. That was the pursuit of a just peace. Not once during the week did I hear any slightest hint of saber-rattling or of aggressive intent. Of course, all of us were concerned with developing the necessary spiritual, economic and military strength of our defensive alliance...
...assured the monarch that the U.S. was willing to cooperate fully with pro-Western Morocco, expressed a readiness to step up economic and military aid. For his part, Mohammed V had shown where his heart lies: his personal gift to the President of the U.S. was a jewel-encrusted saber inscribed with a passage from the Koran: "The triumph comes from God and the victory is at hand...
Dulles made it clear that the U.S. was deeply concerned about Soviet saber-rattling. There had been a recurring Soviet threat to Turkey since 1945, he said, but present Russian belligerence might be "a smoke screen behind which something more serious might be taking place." Whatever the case, the U.S would stand firmly with Turkey...
...years. One by one the House and Senate whacked away at appropriation bills for the various Government departments-State, Justice, Commerce, etc. The House score at week's end: cuts of nearly $1.5 billion and an ambition to cut $1.5 billion more. In one outlandish saber dance the House cut off all 1958 funds for the Administration's soil bank program, designed to ease farm gluts by paying farmers to take land out of production. Chances were good that the Senate, or even the House itself, would reverse this drastic action, but the 192-187 vote...
Hussein, born in 1935 in dusty Amman, became the King's favorite grandson, receiving a royal schooling in horsemanship and saber fighting, and accompanying the old monarch all over his desert realm. "My boy," said Abdullah. "I want you to come always to me and try to learn what you can from what you witness at my palace. Who knows? The time may come when you will replace me on the throne...