Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have expected a soft answer, but instead he drew a crisp refusal: ". . . The services do not have aircraft to spare for trips of this sort," wrote Johnson. "The cost . . . for such a special flight easily can exceed $25,000." At those prices, Johnson suggested, it would be cheaper to use commercial airlines...
...film ended, Greer had decided to sacrifice her worthless relatives to justice. She explained that this would have been her late empire-building husband's decision. "He wanted power because he knew how to use it," she said. Tito sat up straight again...
...Fishing." Tito ordered his personal physician, Dr. Popovic, and his permanent companion, General Zezelj, to take me sightseeing. We toured in a brand-new Mercury. I remember that in Brioni's prewar days, the rich international set were permitted to use only bicycles...
...against Giuliano, Scelba announced the creation of a special force of 2,000 young carabinieri, all from mainland Italy, and all unmarried. At the head of the new command he placed Colonel Ugo Luca, a robust, taciturn ex-army officer who holds eight medals for valor. Luca planned to use tough paratroopers as ground assault troops, set up small, highly mobile units equipped with machine guns, walkie-talkies and police dogs. The Italian treasury appropriated one million lire a month for the special anti-bandit campaign...
Kennan was indignant when State flatly and successfully opposed a Republican drive in Congress to write a $100 million Far Eastern section into the Military Assistance Program (MAP). The funds would have been at the disposal of the Administration for discretionary use against Communism in East Asia...