Word: armored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Berkeley job at no financial loss: his $35,000 salary is about what he earned at Michigan. "Let's get one thing straight," he told reporters. "I don't regard the University of California as some kind of bankrupt organization that needs some knight in shining armor from the East to come in as a kind of domestic peace corps. I think Berkeley is a little chagrined and would like to settle down and get back to work...
...Airmobile Division will have little armor and therefore not much staying power in battle. But it should make up for that with its mobility and fast striking force. It will, said McNamara, be "capable of conducting operations in all types of terrain. It can react quickly and maneuver rapidly over large areas. It can reconnoiter, screen wide fronts, delay hostile forces, and conduct raids behind enemy lines. The division is particularly effective in locating and maintaining contact with the enemy." In other words, it seemed tailor-made for Viet...
...chambers that simulated altitudes of up to 180,000 ft. Patiently, he practiced moving about in the suit he would wear outside the capsule. Weighing 31 lbs and costing over $30,000, the garment is a marvel of cautious construction With 22 layers, it acts as a coat ot armor, as a heat repellant, as protection from deep-freeze temperatures, and as a pressure force to keep White s body from exploding in the near-vacuum of space. Yet it also allows a certain freedom of movement. Although NASA experts figured that the odds against White being punctured by high...
...Baptist laymen and ministers have done for years-but the recognition by a new generation of church leaders that their traditional conception of sin and evil must be broadened. The Rev. Browning Ware, of Beaumont, Texas, expressed the general anxiety vividly. He questioned pastors who "buckle on the armor of protectors of public interest and rush to do battle with gambling, liquor, and separation of church and state" while taking little heed of "conflicts in human relations, adequate education, and poverty...
...Race of Poems. Enclosed in her psychic armor. Edith ventured forth into the world of letters and had soon met everybody worth meeting. In Taken Care Of, the great and the ingrate are taken care of with insuperable invective...