Word: tensely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was a considerable surrender on Item 1; seemingly it involved abandonment by the U.N. of tens of thousands of South Koreans now in Communist hands. It was also a complete surrender on Item 3. The deal was presented as a "final" take-it-or-leave-it package offer. But...
The Quiet Man. Millions of other U.S. citizens felt a jolt, too, at the unexpected news that death had come to George VI, the quiet man who brightened the Crown tarnished by Edward VIII's abdication. Tens of thousands of Americans like Gas Station Attendant Jack Greagor had served...
"We have brought clean and honest government to China," boasted the Communists in 1950, and many Western observers, otherwise unsympathetic to the Communists, hastily acknowledged the Communist achievement-too hastily. Last week Chinese Communists admitted that not only is corruption widespread in Red China, but that it has infected tens...
In the prisoner-of-war discussions, also, the U.N. debaters had the foe all boxed up-verbally. In trying to account for tens of thousands of missing South Koreans, the Red negotiators had said that large numbers had been "re-educated" and had voluntarily joined the Communist forces. Their reluctance...
Senator Joe McCarthy, whose specialty is combing the files for dirt in his one-man Red hunt, dusted off his typewriter to ask the Senate Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections to call off its study of the early McCarthy career. To Chairman Guy Gillette he wrote: "Over the past months...