Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...could hold Formosa. 2) The Chinese Nationalists cannot hold Formosa without U.S. help. 3) The fall of Formosa will make much less difficult the Communist conquest of Indo-China and the Philippines. 4) A Communist Formosa may call for a 20-40% increase of U.S. strength in the Pacific. 5) This increase will cost a great deal more than the cost of holding Formosa...
...Peril. Many Filipinos felt sure that Father Hogan's action was not an individual protest; they thought that the P.A.L. dispute might grow into a major rift between the church and the Philippine government. Manila remembered an eloquent address last fall to Catholic lay leaders in which Apostolic Delegate Vagnozzi had exhorted "the wealthy people [and] businessmen...
...bright afternoon in the fall of 1948, a big car made its way through the streets of Oxford, England, bearing a tubby little old man with a scraggly mustache, who had come to take his first look at the university. At that time few Oxonians had ever heard of 70-year-old Antonin Besse. Nor did they know that he was the mysterious, anonymous French millionaire who had just given Oxford one of the biggest gifts in its history-$6,000,000 for a new college (TIME, Jan. 31, 1949). But by last week, the whole university was buzzing with...
...urged at the Federal Convention in 1787 that each session begin with prayer. "I have lived, Sir, a long time," he said, "and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth-that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without...
...public had never heard of keenwitted Manhattan Lawyer Abraham L. Pomerantz until he bobbed up late last fall as counsel for Russian Spy Valentin A. Gubitchev. For that job Pomerantz got an undisclosed fee (from an undisclosed source) which he claims was "the biggest ever paid in a criminal case." But that was not his usual line of work; only twice before in his career had Pomerantz taken a criminal case...