Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...first the President determined to go through with his round of visiting, partly to keep from upsetting the world by a dramatic return to Washington. But by Sunday noon, after Acheson's second report, he climbed aboard The Independence so fast that he left two of his military aides behind. "Don't make it alarmist,'' he admonished reporters just before takeoff. "It could be a dangerous situation, but I hope...
...next two days, an armada of boats and planes scouted his bearing and the general path the DC-4 should have taken. Storm static scrambled radio contact between the search parties; mist and night fog hampered visibility. But toward the end of the second day, not far from the Navy captain's fix, the Coast Guard came on an oil slick and scraps of tangled metal. Close by floated a piece of blue blanket bearing the stencil "N.W." and bits of human bodies-all that remained of U.S. commercial aviation's worst air disaster...
...Night, Look Out." Colonel Eustaquire Abay (rhymes with buy) is deputy commander of the Second Military Area, which includes the entire region south of Manila. He is displayed as an example and spokesman of the new order which started when the ground forces took over the "pacification campaign." Things are better, he says. Many people in troubled Batangas province, who had been afraid to live in their barrios (villages), and who fled to the relative safety of the towns, are moving back to their old homes. The roads are safe. In this area the Huks are weaker, much weaker, than...
Surface Scraping. The Green Huntsman is the account of what happens to a -wealthy young Parisian of republican sympathies and aristocratic tastes during a tour as a second lieutenant of lancers in the provincial city of Nancy. From one of Stendhal's many points of view, the book is a simple daguerreotype of provincial French society of the 18305. A tilt of his head and the author's all-but-invisible monocle glitters in mockery of that society. Another glance flickers derisively over the monarchists; the republicans are next, and so on to the army, the middle class...
John Adams and the American Revolution, by Catherine Drinker Bowen. A brisk retossing of the salad days of the steady, commonsensical second President of the U.S., which turns up a personality much crisper than most historians have allowed him (TIME, June...