Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...system. Bevan is too much a demagogue to approve a system where demagogery is without influence, too much an opportunist to like a system that demands unquestioning submission to discipline. In the tense days before the Berlin airlift, Bevan was one of the few who wanted to send an armored train through the Soviet blockade to relieve Berlin...
More complications piled up. Cable companies, in a downtown area blocked off by police, were unable to send messengers to pick up our copy. However, our driver Mário found mysterious ways to get through to the cable offices. The possibility of getting pictures out on time seemed dubious. Pan American operations were disrupted, customs were closed, and the road to the international airport was cordoned off by police. The problem was solved by an obliging New York-bound passenger who agreed to take the pictures...
...knock. Quemoy was no Pearl Harbor-not the stuff that touches off wars. But it was, perhaps, part of the stuff of which wars are made. It is an island held by the Nationalist Chinese-Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese-and the U.S. had every right to send Medendorp there as part of a military mission advising and aiding Chiang in what he sees clearly-and the U.S. sees unclearly-as a struggle for Asia and for the world...
Trujillo has chastised Paulino before; in 1950 when the Organization of American States accused Paulino of plotting to assassinate Paul Magloire (now President of Haiti) on behalf of Trujillo, the boss was forced to send him to the doghouse for a while. But careful students of Trujillo's methods think that charging Paulino with Communist policies means he is out for good...
...doubted, but now I have also seen how brutal and cowardly it is. For an action such as you described in "Running the Gauntlet" to be perpetrated by a civilized people seems incredible. After this revelation I firmly side with the Arab patriots, and hope that they will soon send the French packing back to their homeland...