Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...begun to move against guerrilla activity in Laos last month, when it sent 25 U.S. officers to help the French train the 25,000-man Laotian army in the use of U.S.-supplied infantry weapons. In last week's decision, the President went much further. He approved outlays from his own presidential contingency fund and other military aid sources to raise the little nation's armed strength to 29.000, ordered Navy Admiral Harry D. Felt, U.S. commander in the Far East, to airlift arms and equipment to the scene of trouble. With those two orders, and with...
...Soviet. Elsewhere he found decay and neglect. The miles of covered shops in Central Asia's most fabled bazaar had dwindled to a handful of grubby stalls, and only a few of the city's former 100 ornate mosques and 300 madrasahs (Moslem religious schools) were in use...
...Tribal groups were broken up and nomads forced into collectives. In ten years, uncounted millions died from starvation or were killed. Then the Soviets turned to extirpating Moslem religion and culture. Hundreds of mosques were closed, mullahs by the score were arrested, their schools and libraries seized, and the use of Arabic script was forbidden. The ban still exists: although they outnumber Moslems in Egypt, Central Asia's Mohammedans are today the only ones in the world who are not allowed to use Arabic...
...Kearns thought his argument would tranquilize Canadian concern, some sharp editorial retorts soon gave him reason to think otherwise. "That is the wrong tone to use, even with economic vassals," snapped the Toronto Star. "Canadians are perfectly aware that U.S. capital comes in here because this is a profitable country in which to invest, not for altruistic reasons. U.S. capital dominates many key Canadian industries. What this means is that the making of economic decisions affecting Canada lies far too often in non-Canadian hands." Said the Financial Post: "Canadians wonder whether they can call their country their own when...
...defied the Lord's will, but He said 'no!' " As his letter was on its way home, another from his father crossed its path with a clipping about an organization called the Christian Airmen's Missionary Fellowship. Now renamed the Missionary Aviation Fellowship, the organization used light planes to airlift missionaries and supplies in inaccessible parts of the world. Nate Saint had found the way to use his two loves-the Gospel...