Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Held for eleven months, the 82 surviving men of the Pueblo were savagely tortured and forced to sign false confessions that they had been spying for the CIA. To free the crew, the U.S. had to apologize to the North Koreans for "grave acts of espionage," though the U.S. Government almost immediately repudiated the statement...
...sign of danger for the Mayaguez was the sudden appearance at 2:20 p.m. (3:20 a.m. in Washington) of a Cambodian gunboat. It fired machine gun bullets and a rocket across the freighter's bow and forced her to stop. Radio Operator Wilbert Bock got off a last distress call. Then the Cambodians apparently located the radio shack and the radio fell silent. But the last message was picked up in Indonesia by agents of the ship's owner and relayed to the State Department in Washington...
...departure signified that Ford was taking personal command of the crisis and did not want the public to view it as so serious that it would force Kissinger to cancel his trip. As a further sign of who was in charge, State Department Spokesman Robert Funseth told reporters all week: "This has been a presidential action, and I refer you to the White House for comment...
...preparation for the moment of action. He had visited Bess Truman in the old family home in Independence, Mo., and heard a Truman neighbor shout: "Give 'em hell, Henry!" On the big crisis night, Kissinger, back in his Washington office, paced, ordering, listening, waiting. He flashed the V sign out the window once, and then, humor fully restored in the exhilaration of action, he made a lunging movement toward the window as he began to peel off his coat-Henry K into Super K. Deep laughter from the onlookers, buoyed up by the old-style American confidence, echoed...
...eyes are so swollen. I had too much vino last night," complained Playwright Tennessee Williams. With a new novel, Moise and the World of Reason, just off the presses and a play, The Red Devil Battery Sign, opening on Broadway in August, Williams had an excuse for his revels. Last week he got together with the cast at the first rehearsal. Written two years ago while Williams was in Tangier, Battery Sign casts Anthony Quinn as a Mexican street musician, Katy Jurado as his wife and Claire Bloom as his downtown diversion. "I have never had a part before that...