Word: timed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time since 1948, the Senate officially pulled aside the curtain of secrecy from salaries paid by senators to their office staffs...
...three days before the troop landings at Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, were to be duplicated by scores of other Navy officers and men in the seven-month liberation of the Philippines. With the backbone of its naval power snapped in the historic Battle of Leyte Gulf (TIME, Nov. 10, 1958), the Japanese turned full power on their last desperate tactic, the suicidal kamikaze corps. If books had theme songs, the kamikaze Song of the Warrior might serve as an apt motif for this 13th volume of Samuel Eliot Morison's massive U.S. naval history of World...
They Came to Cordura. Gary Cooper on another western road, but this time the villain is cowardice, and the showdown involves not the fall of a body but the rise of a soul...
Soviet ambassadors, as The Ugly American pointed out, are career officials, carefully and intensively trained in the language, history and sociology of the nations to which they are assigned. By contrast, the United States has traditionally used such irrelevant standards as the size of campaign contributions and long-time political service on the home front in selecting its diplomats. The result is a hit-or-miss system that occasionally succeeds, but more often ends up in quiet failure or conspicuous disaster...
This is a good bed-time story, unless you have something more worthwhile to do, such as reading William Faulkner...