Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secretary Dulles quickly turned thumbs down on the proposal. "Conditions which exist in Southeast Asia are quite different from those in Western Europe at the time of the Marshall Plan," he told a press conference. "I am not today convinced that it would be practical to attempt to spend . . . any such figures as would compare with the Marshall Plan figures." But, the Secretary promised, the U.S. would continue its efforts to find an economic solution for Japan and the rest of free Asia...
...world. He would appear shaven-headed in Thailand, disguised as a Buddhist monk; he would show up in the Latin Quarter of Paris, explaining to waiters how to prepare his food. In Canton, Ho worked for Borodin, the Russian intriguer who helped undermine China. In Singapore, Ho organized Southeast Asia's Comintern. And when IndoChina's Nationalist Party rebelled against the French in 1930, Ho Chi Minh played it coldly; although he was constantly posing as a Nationalist, Ho and his Reds stood aside and let the Nationalists die. "My itinerary is carefully prescribed," Ho Chi Minh once...
Before World War II, this operation for sterilization was rare indeed, except under state auspices for sterilization of the insane. It has now become much commoner. There has been no detectable increase in New England or the Southeast, but some big cities of the middle Atlantic seaboard report a moderate increase. In some smaller Midwestern cities and the border states, vasectomy has become a fad, with doctors themselves setting the trend and joking about having been "clipped." In one prairie city of 250,000, two urologists who share an office do an annual average of 50 vasectomies apiece. Around...
...Free chase over southeast England," read the Luftwaffe's daily briefing order after France fell in 1940. Three times daily the German fighters scrambled after the British Hurricanes. Says Galland: "We simply went straight for them, with wide-open throttle and eyes bulging out of our sockets...
...just could not keep his hands off the piano. When the family moved to a ranch house near Ione, southeast of Sacramento, the cowhands used to gather around evenings to listen to the boy play, and sometimes Dave's father would pick up his harmonica and with Dave run through every cowboy tune that they could think...