Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uprising in little Lebanon, the first Middle East nation that accepted the Eisenhower Doctrine without reservation, brought firm but soft-spoken promises of U.S. support. The U.S. airlifted tear gas, guns and ammunition so that the Lebanese government could control insurrection, speeded up a shipment of tanks, sent 18 C124 transports from Donaldson Air Force Base in South Carolina to West Germany to be within easy range of Lebanon. It also sent two Sixth Fleet amphibious units eastward in the Mediterranean with 3,600 Marines, ready if needed to back up U.S. Ambassador Robert McClintock's word that...
...onetime New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon MacLean Tiffany as director of the new Commission on Civil Rights, despite Southern fury over Tiffany's admission that, as a last resort, he would favor the use of federal troops to enforce integration. ¶ The Senate passed by voice vote, and sent to the House, a bill requiring automobile dealers to display on new cars the manufacturer's suggested retail price, the cost of each accessory and a total delivery price. Bill's aim: to eliminate the price pack, a device used by some dealers to raise the total price...
...Senate and House approved and sent to the President a compromise $576 million military pay bill designed to keep skilled technicians and the best leaders in the armed services. The bill provides an increase ranging from 6% to possibly 60% for nearly all servicemen in uniform at least two years, and sets up extra-pay responsibility grades for officers and proficiency ratings for enlisted men. ¶ The Senate passed (46-36) an area redevelopment bill, sponsored by Maine's Frederick Payne and Illinois' Paul H. Douglas, that provides $375 million (compared to the $50 million President Eisenhower requested...
Five small Freshmen were unofficially reported last night to have attempted to finish the job the workmen started in July of 1956, but ten section men, garbed in black, sent them reeling back to Thayer and Weld, much to the delight of the Hymarx people...
...Wrote home for money and they sent it quick. Told them if they didn't I'd take up bull-fighting; or maybe gun-running in Algeria. They always liked me pretty much, anyway. I let the draft boys know I was studying Spanish for some diplomatic spot, so between us we were all happy...