Word: began
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Some extremely odd and unpalatable aspects of Benjamin Freedman's charges began to seep out in testimony. The letter of indictment which he sent the Senate had been drafted with the help of Jew-baiting Gerald L. K. Smith in the offices of Mississippi's vitriolic Representative John Rankin. Freedman testified that he had been visited by Don Surine (an employee of Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy) and Edward K. Nellor (an employee of Radio Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr.), who came bearing a letter of introduction from Rabble-Rouser Smith...
...Washington, thousands of freight cars stood on the sidings, many of them loaded with high-priority defense materials. An avalanche of Christmas packages clogged the post offices and a partial embargo was slapped on mail. The Railway Express Agency suspended service in 15 states; steel and auto companies began banking their furnaces, shutting down production lines...
...Doctrine. Meanwhile, the ceasefire commissioners-Iran's suave Nasrollah Entezam (Assembly President), Canada's hopeful Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson and India's indefatigable Rau-promptly began work. They spent 2½ hours with U.S. representatives. Red China's Wu refused to meet them. On Saturday, at a press conference attended by 75 newsmen, Wu gave Peking's answer: no ceasefire...
After a lull, the enemy began a series of probing attacks. One of these, in less than company strength, was carried out by Chinese wearing U.S. helmets and winter clothing. It was easily repulsed. Then, one morning in the darkness before dawn, after a lot of mass singing, bugling and cymbal-clashing, some 2,500 Reds launched a heavy assault on the west face of the perimeter...
Thirty months after Marshall aid began, Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell last week had an announcement for the House of Commons: Britain could go it alone; Marshall Plan aid would be suspended Jan. 1, 18 months ahead of schedule. "Now we can begin to walk proudly again," said...