Word: tides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They fought in high spirits, but it was the Loyalists' two-man air force that really turned the tide. When the Mustangs reached Costa Rica early last week, not a single available Costa Rican pilot had ever checked out in what was World War II's hottest U.S. fighter. But two commercial pilots with the appropriate names of Victory and Guerra (War) had run up thousands of hours in tamer planes. U.S. instructors hastily briefed them on the Mustang. Less than 24 hours later they buzzed San José, back from their first mission...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Sail with the Tide, with Claude Dauphin and Mai Zetterling...
...year progressed, the Government skillfully used its economic tools, one by one, to turn the tide. Defense spending, as expected, dropped by $8 billion, to a rate of $44 billion a year. But the Administration countered the drop with tax cuts that amounted to $7.4 billion. Said Treasury Secretary George Humphrey: "Some people have called this a recession...
...more complicated. Now, however, the machines have been getting smug themselves, and quite a few people have been growing just a little alarmed. William Faulkner, for instance, last week published a letter in the Times decrying the way airplanes now fly, and fall, themselves. The Council order shows the tide of reaction has reached even to Cambridge. For buses have been loitering in the Square...
...President as was Gen. Grant. Like Gen. Grant, he was bewildered and helpless m dealing with a government that was usurping his powers. He was retreating before McCarthy. He was failing to defend the executive branch of the government and to uphold the integrity of his personnel. The tide began to turn when the Army, to be sure with his rather gingerly support, turned on McCarthy and fought back on the question of who was to run the Army. And this was followed by the President's decision not to intervene in Indo-China. This decision marked the defeat...