Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to his week-by-week stories, it was Dowling's job in the three years to send in battlefield background for three TIME cover stories: Generals De Lattre and Navarre of Indo-China, General Templer of Malaya...
...said Sorokin, wants to "send sex back to the barroom, the back alley and the whispered snicker . . . But neither can we afford to stand idly by while the conclusions of some well-meaning but misguided investigators are cited to justify the destruction of the moral system which has created and sustained our own free democracy...
...born in 1900 in the small, predominantly Jewish village of Makowa, Russian Poland, where his father, Abraham Rickover, was a tailor. By 1904 father Abraham had saved 100 rubles (then $50) and managed to reach New York. In another two years of hard work, he saved enough to send for his family. Ruchal (Rose) Rickover and her two children, Fanny, 8, and Hyman, 6, made their way across Germany, sleeping in bleak dormitories provided by German Jews. When they saw their first ships at Antwerp, the future admiral, Hyman, burst into tears. "The boats were so big," his sister recalls...
...Ridge. In 1946, Captain Rickover, still a sharp, square peg confronted by polished, rounded holes, learned that the Bureau of Ships had decided to send a captain and four junior officers to Oak Ridge to study nuclear energy. He got the job. (No other qualified captain applied.) Nuclear physics in those days was something to scare even brilliant officers...
Wildcat. Rickover's working schedule is hard and relentless. He arrives at Tempo 3 in mufti at 8 a.m. and sets to work at top speed. The telephone rings often, but conversations are brief. "Yes," he'll snap. "Send that guy over, but I won't sign on the dotted line." He starts to hang up, then, "No, no. You hear me? No!" and the conversation is suddenly ended. Subordinates come and go in streams. Carbons of every letter are read critically by Rickover and generally scrawled with comments...