Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such a refusal, the President and the State Department engaged in the most serious diplomacy of the winter. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, What If . . .? As for the larger-looming question-"What if Russia decides to oppose the U.S. moves to establish world order?" -the U.S. now has the biggest big stick in its history: an armed force far mightier than the Russians', presided over by Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a man who doodles (see cut) while listening to his colleagues, and who reflects his hard-driving personality in his motto, "The more our country...
...free world; third, the resources, strategic positions and transit rights must be kept from slipping behind the Iron Curtain . . . It follows that the present situation presents a dangerous situation to the U.S., a condition against which we must have an effective defense." Then Radford quietly turned to the big stick that gives the Eisenhower Doctrine its meaning. "I would say," he testified evenly, "that the Russians are not going to start World War III now because they know they would be defeated if they did. I would say that we are definitely superior in military power to the Communist bloc...
...their hired assassins. To show the U.N. how powerful their influence is after two years of civil war in Algeria, they ordered an eight-day general strike of all Arabs in Algeria and France. Algerians literally sniffed the arrival of the killers whose job was to make the strike stick: young Arab gunmen who invariably spend a portion of their blood money on jasmine-scented hair pomade. Leaflets in crudely printed Arabic pledged death to Arab "traitors" who reported for jobs, or to shopkeepers who opened their shutters...
...Whipkey, now an advertising man in West Virginia, Corporal Van Doren played poker twelve hours a day, won $3,000 in a year. Says Whipkey: "He figures the percentage to the last decimal. On the TV show, he follows the old Black Jack rule, 'Always hit 16, always stick on 18.' Once on TV when Charlie reached 17, I told my wife that Charlie would call it like Black Jack-and he did." Charlie has spent a night in jail (in Florida, when MPs arrested him for overcelebrating V-E day and adding a bright...
Navy lost last week to Yale, so this match should provide some sort of measuring stick with which to predict performances against the Elis in March...