Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being pressed against the enemy's home base exclusively from the sky, there seems little way to reduce the risks for U.S. airmen. But the losses are by no means one-sided. Last week U.S. air strikes damaged or destroyed 355 North Vietnamese barges, 165 bridges, 147 trucks, 69 railroad cars, 58 oil dumps, 36 flak sites, and 2 SAM sites-also a new week's record...
Beside themselves with excitement, some 30 top Canadian and U.S. geological scientists rushed to the area to take advantage of what one called "the opportunity of a lifetime" to observe glacial movement. One theory was that Steele's takeoff originated when a section near its base sank a hundred feet, causing the glacier to start "overriding" itself. But the scientists were unanimously chary of conjecture. "We just don't know anything about the action and reactions of glaciers," confessed bearded Professor Samuel Collins of the Rochester Institute of Technology. "That's why we're here...
...tallying crimes against the person, the 1964 crime clock registered one murder every hour, one robbery every five minutes, one aggravated assault every three minutes. By ignoring the number of people actually vulnerable to such crimes, says Professor Robison, the crime clock presents a distorted picture: "Since the base figures cover an entire year, the number of offenses should be divided by 365 days to represent the chances that any one person would risk. Utilizing this method, rough calculations for murder in 1964 suggest that in the country as a whole, the chance of being, murdered on a given...
This is especially true of thromboembolic (traveling bloodclot) disorders. According to the Government's admittedly incomplete data on annual death causes, roughly 17 out of every 1,000,000 women die of such disorders. The researchers had no better base to go on; they also could only assume that pill-taking women have at least the same thromboembolic disease incidence as the general population. As a result, they multiplied 17 by 5 and came to the conclusion that approximately 85 of the 5,000,000 pill-taking women should have died in 1965 from the effects of traveling clots...
...wrong. He stands so far back in the batter's box that he cannot possibly reach a curve before it breaks. He holds the bat at the very end, actually gripping the knob on the handle with the fingers of his right hand. He hardly ever gets a base on balls because he swings at practically everything; and he does not bother to study opposing pitchers, or even learn their names. "You never hit the pitcher," he shrugs, "just the pitch." Batting is all a matter of luck anyway. "You no lucky, you get no hits," he says...