Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scored a major triumph. His amendment 1) gave the Democrats something solid to show for all the nagging, 2) enabled them to get in a hard, satisfying slap at Ike and Dulles while assuming a statesmanlike stance and, incidentally, 3) justified Harry Truman's 1950 decision to send U.S. forces into Korea without congressional authorization...
...into nearly every basic policy decision confronting the nation. Currently he is urging that the U.S. speed shipments of short-and medium-range missiles (Nikes, Matadors, Snarks) to bolster the defenses of Great Britain. He is helping to work out the details of the agreement whereby the U.S. will send arms to bolster Saudi Arabia while also getting a new five-year lease on Dhahran, the crucial Saudi Arabian air base from which the U.S. Air Force's nuclear bombers can command the southern reaches of the Communist empire. Everywhere, Radford argues publicly and privately for the alltime-peacetime...
...Japan. His airmen called him the "pilots' admiral" because they knew that he could do himself anything he demanded of his air groups-and he knew well the fine line between possible and impossible. Once, while his flagship Yorktown was in the Philippines area, Radford got-orders to send his F4-U Corsairs on a 1,200-mile round-trip attack on Japan. The fighters, he calculated rapidly, would have only five minutes over the target and would not have enough fuel to return if they tangled with the enemy. He signaled his dissent with a famous line: "Negative...
...stooges and freeloaders. His head writer (Edmond O'Brien) plagiarizes to please him. His weakling brother (Mel Tormé) can neither escape him nor lick him. Even a fox-sly gossip columnist fails to frame him and concedes that he must wait for revenge until "six straight men send him along the route to the great producer up yonder." The unpleasant honesty of the climax makes up for most of the play's faults: after pulling down the worlds of those around him, Sammy ends up more on top than ever...
...Physics Department, of which astronomy was then a sub-division, was reluctant to admit her, saying he didn't want any women in his department. "But after all," the now middle-aged mother of three explains, "I had come all the way from England and they couldn't just send me home...