Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bydgoszcz a radio-jamming station was burned down and the local police headquarters attacked to shouts of "Long live Gomulka." At Kutno, an important rail junction between Warsaw and Poznan, a Soviet supply train was attacked, and at Legnica, main Soviet base near the German frontier, a Soviet officer's house was burned down. Throughout Silesia workers' groups passed resolutions protesting against the latest measures of the Kadar regime in Hungary. Last week in Poznan, center of the June riots, 30,000 steelworkers capped three days of anti-Soviet demonstrations with a demand for the with drawal...
...from its launching platform at Florida's Patrick Air Force base one day last week swooshed a hot U.S. challenger in the East-West missiles race-the Snark,* a huge (74 ft. long, 7 tons), turbojet-propelled, surface-to-surface guided missile, i.e., a winged pilotless bomber, with speeds up to 600 m.p.h. and intercontinental range (at least 5,000 miles). Radar-checked and ground-controlled, it whizzed southeast down the Caribbean along the 5,000-mile U.S. test range that extends -by agreement with Britain-from Florida to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic. Its flight plan...
...them were some of his most prized possessions: dozens of tape recordings of South Pacific music, Beethoven sonatas, harp solos. The big man waved goodbye. "See you in 1958," said Paul Siple, 47, a geographer and polar explorer from Arlington, Va. Then he flew off from the U.S. Navy base at McMurdo Sound in the antarctic for a 14-month stay at the most isolated community on earth...
...transport slid in for its landing, its skis burying softly, quickly into the sandlike antarctic snow. Siple was first out; after shaking hands with the men who had come from the huts to greet him, he unloaded his gear from the plane. At this two-mile-high U.S. base at the South Pole, Paul Siple (who first visited the antarctic as a Boy Scout with Admiral Richard Byrd's 1928-30 expedition, was a member of four later expeditions) will direct the research activities of a group of U.S. scientists who in the coming months hope to wrest from...
...long-range, ramjet, supersonic missile, Boeing has option on $22 million Ford Motor Co. plant at Richmond, Calif., is ready to spend $20 million to $25 million converting it, if zoning problems can be settled. Boeing also has option on large site around nearby Parks Air Force Base, may concentrate its missile output in San Francisco Bay area...