Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington decided to stand firm at Quemoy. The Joint Chiefs sent a Tactical Air Command task force of scores of medium jet bombers and supersonic jet interceptors to Formosa, sent carriers Essex and Midway to reinforce the four carriers in the Seventh Fleet, ordered the Seventh Fleet to escort Chinese Nationalist supply convoys to within three miles of Quemoy. A week later the President, in a speech from the White House, capped the U.S. effort: "A Western Pacific Munich would not buy us peace. There is not going to be any appeasement...
...gave your old pal Ike a good working over last night." Snapped Pickert: "Ike has forgot more about war than the common man will ever know." At that point Wayne Morse blew with a fury old friends in Oregon and the U.S. Capitol are wary of. Soon after Morse sent to Employee Pickert a check for $49.25 in wages and a parting explanation: "I am very sorry that it became necessary to end our working relationships. However, I have found from experience that whenever one has such strong differences with my political views which you expressed to others, loyalty...
...Peking the practice of diplomacy is apt to be anything but diplomatic. In the eagerness of several Western nations to recognize Red China, the men who have had to pay the local price are the diplomats sent to Peking. It is a lonely life at best, but worst of all for The Netherlands chargé d'affaires...
Next day, while the newspapers gloated about Rountree's "fleeing from the crowds which came to receive him," the State Department envoy was scheduled to call on Iraq's head of state, General Kassem. The Iraqis sent an army station wagon and a jeepload of troops and-semi-secretly and with no flag flying-the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State was smuggled off to call on the Prime Minister of a supposedly friendly country. It was the only time he left the embassy in his two days in Iraq...
...Atlas are two recorder-transmitters. Carried in a special pod on the rocket's side, the instruments weigh an estimated 100 lbs. each, are capable of receiving, recording, and rebroadcasting messages on signal from the ground. President Eisenhower's voice, recorded on tape ahead of time, was sent up in the instrument package. After the Atlas made twelve trips around the earth, a radio station at Cape Canaveral gave it a coded signal that triggered one of its transmitters. Down from space came the President's message, scratchy but intelligible...