Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...fortune, the Army believed his story. En route, he got free of his guards, fled into a waiting limousine, led the Army a dizzy chase across the U.S. to freedom in Europe, taunting his pursuers with picture postcards along the way. An unhappy exile, the senior Bergdoll voluntarily returned home from Germany in 1939 because he wanted "to bring [my] children up in the United States," penitently served a four-year prison term...
Course No. 4. The U.S. and its allies, asking for no armistice, can extricate as many of their troops as possible from Korea, bring them home, let the rest of Asia fall to Red power. They can then concentrate on trying to defend a Europe whose reliance on U.S. and U.N. protection would have been damaged or destroyed by the calamity in Asia. Building of a defense for Europe has been lagging badly because of defeatism, neutralism, and the lack of a vigorous U.S. policy. Under Course No. 4 all of these dragging factors will probably increase...
...crushing Chinese counteroffensive in Korea had put General MacArthur on the griddle at home and in Europe. In Washington, carefully anonymous military officials who love to chuck harpoons at MacArthur leaked reports that he had defied Administration suggestions that he halt his troops well short of the Korean-Manchurian border. Nervous European politicians charged bitterly that MacArthur wanted to plunge the U.S. and her allies into a major Asiatic war which would leave Europe undefended. MacArthur promptly struck back at his critics through the press. In a statement solicited by the New York Times's Arthur Krock, MacArthur denied...
...city hall, Lieut. Colonel John Joseph Livingston of Alexandria, Va., deputy chief of the U.S. Army's civil assistance team, sat wearing a sheepskin vest with a pistol strapped around his chest. His telephone rang. He sent an officer down for the mayor. The mayor had gone home. "Get somebody else, then," Livingston said. The officer went down and came back again. "There's nobody, Colonel. Only one man, and I don't even think he works here. I think he's a social friend of somebody in the office and maybe he doesn...
...hospital and home for convalescence came two daughters of California's Governor Earl Warren. Nina ("Honey Bear"), 17, had had a bout with polio, but her doctor predicted that she would be hale & hearty after a year and a half of treatment. Dorothy, 19, faced a week in bed after cracking some ribs and puncturing a lung in an auto accident...