Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called back to Washington to run the U.S. fleet, was soon to be appointed (the first man in history) to the double-gaited job of Fleet Commander and Chief of Naval Operations. Growled Sailorman King to his colleagues at the Navy Department: "When they get into trouble, they always send for the sons of bitches...
Leaving nothing to chance, Republican National Committee Chairman Len Hall this week will open a farm-belt campaign office in Chicago. Under Colorado's former Governor Dan Thornton, the office will send squads of campaigners into the Midwestern states to beat the drums for the G.O.P. If they get a chance to use their umbrellas, so much the better...
...boldness of his policies electrified the country. It was Menderes who took the decision to send Turkish troops to the Korean war. He joined the Balkan Pact and helped fashion the Baghdad Pact. He was among the firmest and most useful of U.S. allies in the Mediterranean...
Says Early: "There's no reason for a doctor to send Johnny off to a pediatrician to have a boil lanced or a sliver removed, just because Johnny is under twelve. Yet an internist is supposed, ethically, to send all patients under twelve to pediatricians. There's no reason why a general practitioner can't do most minor surgery and most obstetrics. If there's anything unusual about a case he'll call in a specialist anyhow." General Practitioner Early starts practice this week in Lemon Grove (pop. 20,000), nine miles from San Diego...
...Roosevelt summoned bleak, bottle-bald Ernie King from the Navy's second ocean-where he had directed the Atlantic's undeclared war of 1941-to lay down a massive plan of defense and counterattack in the blazing Pacific. ("When they get into trouble," barked King, "they always send for the sons of bitches.") By 1944 he was boss of almost a dozen fleets-the mightiest naval force the world has ever seen-and by war's end it was clear that no other service commander had more to do with winning...