Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...lock yourself in the bathroom," cautioned a third. "That's the worst place...
...rocket is fired from a portable launcher, is guided to its target through a long wire it trails behind. Three times the SS-11 was fired at the Benning show, and three times it scored a direct hit on a tank more than a mile away. At the third hit, Ike pushed his hat back, grinned and exclaimed: "Holy...
...MERGER TALKS are going on among New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, and Chesapeake & Ohio. Union of three would create a 25,000-mile, $4 billion empire, biggest in U.S. It would also be defensive move against merger being discussed between Norfolk & Western and Nickel Plate. N. & W. is one-third owned by Pennsylvania R.R., which is now biggest U.S. railroad...
...first two volumes of his war memoirs, The Call to Honour (TIME, Oct. 31, 1955) and Unity (TIME, May 18, 1959), recorded De Gaulle's near-miraculous feat of creating a Free France from moral and military wreckage. Salvation, the third and last volume, covers the years between France's liberation (1944) and his resignation as France's first postwar Chief of State (1946). In a sense it is the most revealing book of the three. A hero at home and on the job is bound to lose some of the aura that surrounded...
...written in bold, sometimes eloquent prose that serves as an admirable carriage for all the De Gaulle qualities: his soldier's selflessness, his sometimes irritating sense of destiny, above all his incorruptible honesty. In another man it would seem intolerable if he wrote of himself in the third person: "Every Frenchman . . . had the troubling suspicion that with the General vanished something primordial, permanent and necessary which he incarnated in history." From De Gaulle such words have the ring of simple fact...