Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moscow angrily concurred. But, as Israel first told it, the Jewish jets scrambled only after early-warning radar picked up several waves of Arab planes headed straight for Israel. At the same time, a massive Egyptian armored column was reported to be rolling out of its base at El Arish and steering toward the Israeli border...
...height are known to have appeared. On a recent expedition to Bear Island, Schweitzer reports in the current issue of the German journal Umschau, he unearthed the first portion of Pseudobornia trunk ever found, a 33-ft. fossilized section composed of bamboo-like segments. It was lodged at the base of a cliff in an Upper Devonian Period stratum some 300 million years old. How it got there is a mystery that Schweitzer hopes to solve on a future expedition, when he will search for Pseudobornia's still-unknown ancestors. "With such a tremendous stature," he says, "it could...
...conversions as a genuine response to the message of Christ. The Rev. Addison J. Eastman, mission director of the National Council of Churches' Asia department, believes that many of the converts are inspired by "a personal faith, and real hope that the Christian church can provide a base from which to work for humane social progress...
Missing a mark in yachting is a mistake roughly comparable to shooting at the opponents' hoop in basketball or stealing an occupied base in baseball...
...predictions all make a certain sense. Chicago's pitching staff boasts a combined earned-run average of 2.57, and White Sox base runners have already stolen 57 bases this year. Balti more has Frank Robinson, who ranks second in hitting (at .337), first in home runs (16) and first in RBIs (47). The Red Sox have Righthander Jim Lonborg, whose record so far is seven victories and only one loss...