Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roads to socialism" had resulted in rebellion in Hungary, defiance in Poland and denunciation by the world. The restless spirit of dissent seethed in Rumania, in East Germany, even in docile Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria. In France and Italy, in every Western country, the Communist parties were in turmoil; everywhere veteran comrades were resigning in outrage over his brutal suppression of the Hungarian revolt. At the December 1956 Plenum of the Communist Party Central Committee in Moscow, he was conspicuously not one of the speakers...
...twelve months, Nikita Khrushchev, peasant's son and cornfield commissar scorned by the party's veteran intellectuals, disposed of all his serious rivals?at least for the time. For good measure, he turned on the Soviet Union's No. 1 soldier and war hero, Marshal Georgy Zhukov, dismissed him with an airy promise of "some job for which he is experienced and qualified." He reorganized Soviet industry, laid down the law to Soviet intellectuals, stemmed the tide of desertions from the Western Communist parties, soothed the incipient rebellion in the satellites, and got from China's Mao Tse-tung...
...Lord's Business. The pilots and mechanics also came as gifts. S.I.L. had no money to pay them; so before joining the airline, each man had to get some church or individual to guarantee his salary ($100 monthly at the most). Pilot George Insley, 35, veteran of World War II bombing missions and five years in the Strategic Air Command (he left as a major), is supported by three churches and four private individuals. But S.I.L. pilots are not tempted by the fat rewards of business. "This is business, too," says California-born Chief Pilot Omer Bondurant...
Assisting the Lord is a thoroughly professional organization, superbly run on a shoestring by Bondurant and Maintenance Chief Lester Bancroft, 31, a veteran of Continental Airlines. Planes are constantly monitored over war-surplus radio equipment, must report every 15 minutes, are required to stay down after dark. Each man packs a mosquito net, air mattress and survival rations, is reminded in case he runs out of food to "eat what monkeys eat." "Fact is." says Maintenance Boss Bancroft, "we never had a serious accident. We feel the Lord is with...
...aces to Anderson's five, and he pushed the powerful Aussie cowpoke to five sets before he lost, 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 7-9, 6-3. After that, the cup slid swiftly out of reach. Cooper pinned Seixas to the base line and whipped the U.S. veteran in a match that went the unimpressively full five sets. Next day, in the doubles, Hopman took Mervyn Rose, 27, out of the Davis Cup doghouse, where he has lingered ever since losing two singles matches in 1951, teamed him with Anderson and clinched the cup with an easy, three...