Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...known that the withdrawal of Bohlen's name had been urged on "top" Eisenhower aides. "We had an election," said Bridges, "and the Acheson-Truman policies were repudiated. [Bohlen] is an architect and part of the team determining those policies. I don't see why we should send such a man to one of the most delicate spots in the world. We should have a man in whom we, including the Congress, have complete confidence...
...weeks, then was shot down himself (TIME, Feb. 18, 1952). Said Baker: "I just lucked out on him." The Air Force, just to make sure that luck doesn't finally run out on its new ace of aces, ordered Baker to stay on the ground until it can send him home to McKinney, Tex. to his wife & four kids...
...them, because there is always another. I'm not complaining of him-he keeps us fit and even alive, if we are alert." His best period of writing: during the 1940 blitz on London, when he was a member of the Home Guard. "Göring used to send his boys over every day and night then. And I found it a stimulus to writing poetry. Why, the air was full of gold those days; you had only to reach up and pull it down...
...basement workshops. They can simulate an eclipse of the sun, complete with corona and Baily's beads. They can work up their own thunderstorms: dark clouds move across the dome as lightning flickers and thunder rumbles in the public address system. Added switches on the control panel can send a shower of meteors drifting down the sky. Fireballs flash and explode overhead...
...fulcrum of the series, Marshal Matt Dillon sets the mood. He is, says Macdonnell, "a lonely, sad, tragic man . . . a quiet, unhappy, confused marshal; these days we'd send him to an analyst." Like one of his prototypes,* Matt is not all sweetness & light. The girl in the series, Kitty, is "just someone Matt has to visit every once in a while," says Macdonnell. "We never say it, but Kitty is a prostitute, plain and simple...