Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President could hardly have been surprised that another big question at his news conference dealt with the state of U.S. defenses; his morning Washington Post headlined the plea of Air Force General Thomas Power, chief of the Strategic Air Command, for a round-the-clock SAC airborne alert to cover the years (1961-63) when the U.S. will lag in missile production...
...noted, that a Titan had finally fired successfully, but the Atlas "could fly as far, hit as accurately and carry as much weight as the Titan. The only difference is that the Atlas is 1½ years ahead and is doing it now." Backing up the Strategic Air Command's plea for an airborne SAC alert, he said: "Any person without bias-that is, not trying to sell missiles or balance the budget-has got to assume that the President is taking a dangerous, dangerous gamble with our national survival. I don't think he has the right...
...begun to dawn on some Britons that the pub is something out of the past in more ways than one. Class-conscious publicans still provide a "saloon" for the gentry and a "public" bar for the lower classes, where a pint is a penny cheaper. Dog-eared signs command: "No Singing," "No Gambling," "No Credit." Listening to phonograph records or sports broadcasts is forbidden. Finally, there is the most exasperating restriction of all-"Time, gentlemen, please," which is the theme song of the most bewildering set of license laws in Christendom...
There is no real argument about the power of SAC, backed up by the nuclear-armed fighters of the Tactical Air Command in Europe, to deter a Soviet attack on the U.S. this year. But earnest and patriotic men are haunted by doubts as to whether the U.S. can complacently rely on SAC to bridge the missile gap as it widens in 1961 and beyond, and whether the President's $41 billion defense budget for fiscal 1961 is an adequate response to the challenge of that gap. The critics do not argue that the 1961 budget fails to provide...
...like a wild cry of panic in the night ("I myself have been struck by paralysis, by anguish and by torment like all of you"), Delouvrier announced that, General de Gaulle having taught him how to decide, he and Challe had decided to leave Algiers and go to a command post in the country. He called upon Algeria's 9,000,000 Moslems ("I beg you, I beseech you") to come out into the streets demonstrating for De Gaulle-an appeal which, had it been heeded, might easily have set off the worst blood bath in Algerian history...