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Word: teare (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the Joint Chiefs. The Army's Maxwell Taylor arose, asked McElroy crisply: "May I use your phone?" Permission granted, Taylor snapped out orders for the joist Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky. to alert two companies. Equipment: "Packet A" -i.e., antiriot weapons, such as billy clubs and tear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE-PRESIDENCY: Epochal Journey | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...challenge of the 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Week of Challenge | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

Mysterious Withdrawal. At the ceremony's end the crowd swept up the steps of the huge courtyard before the nine-story, glass-fronted Government General building, to be met by a charge of security police who, with clubs and tear gas, twice drove the crowd back. Only the students from the lycees, the young toughs in tight blue jeans and sweatshirts, a few ex-paratroopers still wearing their red, green or blue berets, seemed ready for another clash with police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: Hesitant Insurrection | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...fedayeen raiders caught coasting up to Lebanon in small boats from the Gaza Strip. As the riots raged on, the U.S. Sixth Fleet stood into the eastern Mediterranean, a U.S. cargo ship fetched 14 Americans unscathed from battered Tripoli, and U.S. Air Force transports roared into Beirut with tear gas and small-arms ammunition. "We are determined to help this government maintain internal security," said U.S. Ambassador Robert McClintock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Bloodletting | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...real gripe," says Minneapolis Physician George Riley Martin, who swapped his 1954 Chevy for a small Simca, "is that American cars are getting too complicated. They're too full of gadgets that are always going wrong. My windshield wipers kept breaking, and they practically had to tear out the dashboard to get at the things. You're getting fins and chrome, and every time that you bash a fender a little bit, the whole side of the car has to be replaced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: On the Slow Road | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

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