Word: bay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this year has been excellent. Hunters report heavy flights along the South Shore Marshes of Plymouth County and in the marshes around the Parker River Refuge south of Newbnryport. Outside the state, good duck hunting is to be found along the Maine coast and in the Narragansett Bay area...
...thought from laboratory fission to atomic bomb, set out to urge the U.S. Government to get an atomic-research project going. Reasoning that a letter to President Roosevelt would have maximum impact if signed by Einstein, Szilard recruited his fellow Hungarian Edward Teller to chauffeur him out to Peconic Bay, N.Y., where Einstein was vacationing. Einstein signed, and the eventual result was the Manhattan Engineer District project that produced history's first atomic bomb...
Teller did not know it then, but the trip to Peconic Bay was a turning point in his life-the start of his deep involvement in weaponry, war and politics. When he went to Columbia to work with Szilard on an atomic-energy project, Teller intended to go back to George Washington some day and resume his pure-science investigations into the minute structure of matter. That day never came. In 1943 he found himself heading to New Mexico to work at the Los Alamos A-bomb lab. Recalls Teller: "I was then on leave of absence from the Chicago...
When the shiny horn tootled First Call, only three thoroughbreds trotted to the post: that sprinting fool, Bold Ruler, back in shape after a bout with heart trouble; the handsome bay, Round Table, riding high on an eleven-straight winning string; and the controversial colt, Gallant Man, who lost the Derby by a dirty nose. Between them they had already earned nearly $1,500,000; now they were after a piddling $82,350. But the money didn't matter. The winner of last week's race at New Jersey's Garden State track would be America...
...professional football, the New York Giants whipped Philadelphia, 13 to 0; the Detroit Lions toppled the San Francisco 49ers, 31 to 10; the Baltimore Colts beat the Chicago Bears, 29 to 14, and the Los Angeles Rams edged the Green Bay Packers...