Word: turned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Treaty of Portsmouth, N.H.; 2) restoration of balance of power; 3) the Nobel Peace Prize for T.R. T.R.'s thought about the Treaty of Portsmouth: "Sometime soon I shall have to spank some little international brigand, and then all the well-meaning idiots will turn and shriek that this is inconsistent with what I did at the peace conference, whereas...
...much as a bird flies, it will be shot down," boasted one French official. Pointing out that the elimination of one forest still left several thousand square miles of terrain rich in cover, an F.L.N. spokesman retorted confidently: "If French troops and civilian inhabitants are pulled out to turn the area into a forbidden zone, we will move...
...conspirators handled it like baddies in a Buster Keaton film. One of them showed up at the Pusan airport with overweight baggage, left behind a suitcase containing an incriminating note in English ("Turn your nose north; your life will be spared"). Another dashed off hysterically at plane time, held up departure long enough to fire off a telegram implicating his brother. But once in the air, the conspirators were professional enough. As the Korean National Airlines plane neared Seoul, they held U.S. civilian pilot, Willis Hobbs, at pistol point. Instead of touching down at Seoul, the twin-engined...
...came from Lady Churchill, who beamed: "He is very well, thank you," as she took a turn in the villa garden Friday morning. "Very definite improvement," confirmed the day's bulletin, said to have been edited by the great man himself. At week's end. Sir Winston was smoking two cigars a day, "handling a considerable volume of correspondence," and threatening to go out painting. "You'll see," he growled at a member of his household. "I'll be out with brushes before any of you think I will...
...clock classes ("a bloody nuisance"), McNair sailed through his courses with astonishing ease. He has come out with top marks in French literature, made a "very satisfactory" record in all his other subjects. He became senior debater of the debating team ("You should see the other teams turn green when he starts talking," says one classmate), last week was organizing a meeting to improve student-professor relations. His classmates' "sir" has long since given way to just plain "John...