Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surrendered. Encouraged, Rahman extended the amnesty deadline until next April 30, showered 12 million safe-conduct passes into the forests. But he had less success with Chin Peng, 36, Chinese-educated leader of the guerrillas. From his jungle lair across the border in neighboring Thailand, Chin Peng sent word that he would be willing to meet Rahman only to discuss "an end to the war," not a surrender. Snapped the Tengku last week: "Unless and until Chin Peng is willing to surrender, there will be no meeting...
...flight of the intercontinental Atlas, even though only over a 500-mile test range, that was the roar heard 'round the world. Instantly the word was flashed to President Eisenhower at the NATO conference. The message electrified the Senate caucus room where Texas' Lyndon Johnson and his Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee were conducting missile hearings. "That," said Johnson, "is mighty good news...
...portrayal that he sent a note saying, "I'd be glad to be hanged again," to which Ustinov replied: "Sir, I believe that for the crime of playing with Ustinov, the death penalty would be too severe. But I shall include in my Dictionary the definition of the word Dodd as 'a man who would die more than once for his friends (rare word and rarer person).' Signed: Sam. Johnson...
...told his young Russian wife that the Messiah had come and that his name was Jesus. She was horrified, contemplated divorce. "Next day, after his father came home from the synagogue," says she. "I told him his son had become a goy. 'Don't breathe a word about it.' he said. He thought I'd gone crazy...
...wind of a new, wide-open schism between right and left wings of Indiana's Republican Party. What he did not know was that for two hours of gory infighting in an Indianapolis hotel room, a live microphone on the table had faithfully broadcast almost every feuding word to newsmen clustered around a loudspeaker in a nearby press room...