Word: wrote
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Republican members of the U.S. Senate, call upon the President to appoint a new Secretary of State at the earliest possible time," wrote Ives in a resolution submitted to the Republican policy committee. ". . . Unless this change ... is made, our efforts to cooperate must prove futile and national disunity and lack of confidence are likely to increase." In the House, Pennsylvania's Hugh Scott, onetime national chairman of the party, echoed the demand-without the threat implied in Ives's "efforts to cooperate" clause...
...National commanders of four veterans' groups (American Legion, V.F.W., Disabled American Veterans and Amvets) wrote President Truman a joint letter urging him to give General Douglas MacArthur full authority to bomb Manchurian bases...
...beggar government . . . with an umbrella borrowed from Chamberlain to warn the President that we must withdraw from Korea-to hell with our brave kids . . . and to invite butchers of our wounded boys to seats at the U.N. . . . America will go it alone!" The British consul-general in Los Angeles wrote a letter in reply to suggest politely that Birdwell keep cool and to ask, "Can he cite a single instance in which Britain pulled out and left her allies to bear the brunt of battle...
...want to seal the enemy's eyes and ears as completely as possible," Mao Tse-tung once wrote about the Japanese, whom, he now says, the Americans have replaced. "We want to render them blind and deaf; we want to take the heart out of their officers; we want to throw them into utter confusion, driving them insane...
...hours later, guest of honor at a publisher's reception, he was on his way through an amazing series of adventures. Colin, who would have found it hard to get into the editor's office of Figaro on Monday, wrote Figaro's front-page literary essay on Wednesday. A short story that Colin could not place on Monday appeared Thursday in Les Nouvelles Littéraires. By Saturday his novel was being serialized in France-Dimanche, a sensational weekly. All week the presses roared, boosting the total printing of his book (a modest story about a group...