Word: salients
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half years ago, the Gallup poll found that only 37% of the U.S. public had an opinion about Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. Last week George Gallup reported on another set of McCarthy polls. Salient results: 1) about 80 million adult Americans (79%) now have an opinion, and 2) Joe McCarthy is more popular than ever before. Gallup's tables show the trend over the past eight months on the question: "In general, would you say you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy2...
...International Monetary Fund to go through? Did Truman keep White so that the FBI would catch fellow conspirators? On these points there is a public record, and last week Attorney General Herbert Brownell and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover read it before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. Salient passages...
...with the truce seemingly so near, were the Reds still attacking so fiercely on the battlefront? U.N. observers could think of several Communist motivations: 1) to wipe out a discomforting U.N. salient and get more territory for themselves; 2) to gain prestige in the closing hours; 3) to punish the ROKs-or rather to punish Rhee by bloodying the ROKs-and convince them they could get nowhere against Communist power if they fought alone...
...Hwachon dam and reservoir (supplying most of Seoul's electric power) and the U.N. communications hubs at Chorwon and Kumhwa, which had seemed threatened under the first impetus of enemy attack, were safe. A new U.N. first line was established at the base of the Kumsong salient. But the salient itself was gone. At the cost of thousands of lives, the proposed armistice line was a little straighter-in the Communists' favor...
...enemy has installed himself in Saxony and in the Thuringian salient, 150 kilometers from the Rhine. This salient is, in the heart of Germany and toward the heart of France, a ... loaded pistol...