Word: put
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates, who created the board last August as a solution to a nagging dispute between the Air Force and the Navy over control of the Navy's Polaris missile-submarine system. The Air Force, claiming the right to hit strategic targets, wanted to put assignment of Polaris targets under control of the Strategic Air Command. The Navy, claiming the need for seagoing expertise, wanted Polaris targeting left up to Navymen. In another day the fight would have boiled out into angry headlines. But Gates set up the interservice strategic target team, headed by SAC Commander...
...Russian Sputnik soared into orbit in October 1957, Gates picked up the enthusiasm of the Navy's Polaris missile boosters, fought the civilian battles for a speedup in the Polaris program through the Defense Department and the White House. As a result, the first battle-ready Polaris sub put to sea three years ahead of the original schedule (TIME, Nov. 28). With Russia ahead of the U.S. in land-based ballistic missiles, the U.S. would be facing a formidable weapons gap in the early 1960s had Polaris not been pushed...
Alexander had flown in the day before with special orders from Nkrumah to see to it that Welbeck stayed put in Léopoldville. But one look at the critical situation convinced Alexander that Welbeck must go-and fast. At the Ghana embassy, Alexander found that the terrified Welbeck had spent the night cowering between two beds, keeping up his courage with periodic nips at a bottle of brandy. Escorted by Alexander, Welbeck emerged from the bullet-scarred residence with a weak smile and a face-saving lie: "I am moving only because my government has asked...
...enforced retirement at Chartwell; later shots of Winston Churchill walking the deck of a British battleship, wearing bow tie and bowler and carrying a cane. First Lord of the Admiralty once more, after the message had gone out to His Majesty's fleet, "Winston is back." What really put the ABC series in flight were the words behind the pictures, the prose of Churchill spoken in the Elizabethan voice of Actor Richard Burton, an apt combination that gives The Valiant Years the ring of a historical drama, whether describing prewar England as a "fat, valuable cow tied...
...election night an impatient Democrat picked up a telephone and called Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel, hoping to persuade the Vice President of the U.S. to concede. Soon he was screaming at a switchboard operator who refused to put him through: "But this is Frank Sinatra...