Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indo-China the Communist Viet Minh forces were closing in on the key city of Hanoi. Top U.S. military men were resigned to the imminent fall of Hanoi, of the whole Red River delta and of all northern Indo-China. Any possibility of a U.S. effort to save the North had been abandoned. It was too late. At the Pentagon the discussion had turned to another kind of effort: how to evacuate the 300,000 non-Communist residents and troops in the area. This would require some 130 ships, would rival Dunkirk in its drama and scope...
...sore spot. Said Tennessee's sharp-tongued Albert Gore: "Even though the Randall Commission made its report . . . and even though the President had made his recommendation to Congress, the high-protection group has won its first engagement without so much as a skirmish." The Democrats, said Gore, would save the day and append the full Eisenhower-Randall recommendations to the first suitable bill that came along...
...what could the West save at Geneva? Laniel had publicly declared that France could not fight on without help...
Some, like Peter Bove, strayed temporarily from the political paths of their fathers. "Came the depression and the grim realities of life and my vote along with a few million others was cast for Franklin D. Roosevelt," Bove writes. "We thought he would save the day. And maybe he did. But when he began to drown the little pigs and plow the wheat fields under my views changed. I became a Republican and have voted so ever since...
...week later, Cohn suggested to Stevens that it might "save embarrassment all around" to get Schine a job at the Central Intelligence Agency...