Word: ages
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dimension rocket was the Air Force's MB-1, or Genie (formerly dubbed Ding Dong and High Card), manufactured by Douglas Aircraft Co. The Genie's nuclear punch, said an Air Force spokesman, is "well below nominal"-nominal meaning, in the strange new vocabulary of the Atomic Age, equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT. But even a "well below'nominal" air-to-air nuclear rocket could destroy a whole flight of enemy bombers with the smash of its shock wave...
...million in 27 years. Merging the two papers, Cox successfully battled "the dangerous and disgraceful regime" of Governor Eugene Talmadge. He was 79 when he bought Atlanta's other daily, the morning Constitution. Asked, like Lewis Carroll's Father William, how he did so much at his age, Cox replied: "Running water never grows stagnant...
...runs batted in (78). Though temporarily out of the lineup with a gimpy left ankle, he has a solid chance of becoming the first National Leaguer to win clear title to these three championships since Philadelphia's Chuck Klein turned the trick in 1933 at the age of 27. But for the life of him, Aaron cannot explain how he does it. He just hits the baseball. "I'm up there with a bat, and all the pitcher's got is the ball," says he. "I figure that makes it all in my favor...
...them to camp each summer. In 1951 the family moved from their Southwest-side flat to a $20,000 one-family house in the Northwest area. Marilyn's own lot began brightening when she was about twelve. She found a big welcome in the Fairteen Club, a teen-age group sponsored by a Chicago department store, won modeling contests there, was soon modeling for Slenderella, department stores, dress shops. Marilyn and boys discovered each other. "I was getting quite a nice little shape on me," she says. "I got whistles...
Guided by carbon 14, the modern touchstone of archaeology, the diggers hope to find out what happened during the long dark age between the fall of the Olmecs and the rise of the Mayans...