Word: seriousnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last month slashed Ike's "rock bottom" $1.6 billion military-aid request to $1.3 billion, sent it to the Senate. Fighting back, Ike last week sent along Draper's strong report, demanded repairs on the "dangerously low" aid bill. Draper, more explicit, called the congressional cuts "a serious security danger for the United States." His committee found that military aid, along with economic aid, is basic to the U.S.'s "entire forward strategy and hope for the future...
...Driving to the Capitol one morning last week. Thompson was stopped at a red light when a green Ford truck pulled up next to him. A man leaned out the window, pointed a rubber syringe at Thompson, squirted a stream of liquid. Only bad aim saved Frank Thompson from serious injury: the liquid was sulphuric acid, and the little that did hit Thompson burned a hole through his shirt, raised a blister...
Private Occasion. Serious-minded Steven and his Anne-Marie seemed genuinely stunned at the world response to their wedding. At first they were glad to interrupt their jaunts on Steven's motorcycle and chat with the trickle of arriving newsmen. Then their eyes glazed at the continual flaring of flashbulbs, the eager and often idiotic questions of a growing flood of newsmen and newswomen...
Hoping to forestall further attacks, Laos' hard-pressed Premier Phoui Sananikone rushed his brother, former Defense Minister Ngon Sananikone, to New York to put Laos' case before U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. Peking promptly huffed that "serious consequences" would follow if the U.N. sent observers to Laos, and held secret conferences in Peking with North Viet Nam Boss Ho Chi Minh. Moscow's Pravda blamed all the trouble on the U.S., and said that the Laotian government is pushing the country to "the abyss of civil war" by a policy of "terror and savage reprisals against...
Dave Shoup's Medal of Honor citation describes a marines' marine: "For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his own life, above and beyond the call of duty . . . although suffering from a serious, painful leg wound . . . Colonel Shoup fearlessly exposed himself to terrific, relentless artillery, machine-gun and rifle fire ... He assumed command of all landed troops and, working without rest under constant, withering enemy fire during the next two days conducted smashing attacks against unbelievably strong and fanatically defended Japanese positions . . . Colonel Shoup was largely responsible for the final, decisive defeat of the enemy . . ." Shoup...