Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This vest-pocket veto and Truman's big budget squeeze of the year forced the Air Force to slow its buying of fighters and fighter-bombers, and to concentrate on building up its Sunday punch, the big-bomber Strategic Command. The squeeze also nipped the Navy's plans for building a 65,000-ton supercarrier, which it hoped would put naval aviation into the strategic bombing business. In 1949 the "revolt of the admirals" broke out, a no-holds-barred attack on the Air Force and its 6-36 which developed-on all sides-into the blackest chapter...
...appropriating large sums of money to the United Kingdom, France and other countries, and we're under no obligation to do so." Once Harriman spoke of the "very small sum" involved in mutual security. Connally glared, his big mouth popped open and his cigar tumbled ashes down his vest as he asked: "You call $7 billion a small sum?" Hastily Harriman explained he meant "relatively small" in comparison with the importance of strengthening the free world...
...narrated by the Weavers to a homely little melody, there was a logger who could eat baled hay if someone sprinkled it with whisky. One night when it froze clean through to China, he started off home without his mackinaw. At 100 below, he just buttoned his vest. But at 1,000 below, he froze solid. His sweetheart finally got tired of waiting for him, and went looking for another man who stirred his coffee with his thumb...
...year-old Hashem Bey Attassi, former Syrian nationalist leader who was unanimously elected president by Parliament in Sept. 1950. This week, murmuring appropriate thanks to Attassi for his integrity, Shishekly issued "Communique No. 2," tossing Attassi out of the presidency, and dissolving parliament. Then he reached into his vest pocket for a Colonel Fawzi Silo, whom he installed as chief of state, Premier and defense minister, pending "restoration of normal parliamentary life...
...weekly Clarks, Neb. News, the story on Myrtle Mace's wedding told more about the groom than the bride. Said the News: "He wore a bluish business suit consisting of coat, vest and pants. The suit had been recently cleaned and pressed . . . Beneath was a freshly laundered white shirt. [His] hair had been recently trimmed by Fred Gilliard, Clarks's barber, and was brushed flat with a part on the left side." The reporter: Editor John Carter. The groom: Editor Carter...