Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...education alive in Arkansas. "It is almost more than I can bear," said Mrs. Terry, "to have the name of my city, which has been a good city, used by the Communists all over the world as a tool against our type of government. We have given them the best tool they have had in 20 years." And 220 Little Rock students quietly applied for copies of their grade transcripts-a sign that they intended to transfer soon to other cities...
...became the Arizona territory. In the 1860s Big Mike Goldwater, Barry's grandfather, packed in behind a mule to found the mercantile business which now does $6,000,000 a year in five Goldwater department stores, spawned a robustious breed whose reputation for high jinks Barry did his best to uphold. An experienced pilot, he flew over all 114,000 sq. mi. of his state, landed long enough to fall in love with the landscape and the Indian tribes, snap thousands of color pictures, race down the perilous Colorado River in a flatboat-making friends everywhere...
...city-type services as water supply, sewage disposal, zoning, housing codes, traffic planning-which demand area-wide coordination. It left to each of the 26 municipalities such functions as beat-walking police and garbage collection. Experience alone would show how some jobs, such as police detection work, could be best divided...
...seemed to be forgetting that while a conventionally loaded LST can carry 1,300 tons of cargo, it can carry at most 17 LVTs-and each LVT has room for only 2^ tons of cargo. Cold fact was that daily deliveries of supplies to Quemoy last week ranged at best from 50 to 150 tons, but to survive in fighting trim, Que-moy's 150,000 soldiers and civilians need a minimum of almost 700 tons of supplies...
...haul of some 400 manuscripts from Cave 4 is now considered complete. Scrollsters are currently feverish with anticipation about the contents of Cave 11. Says Cross: "The scrolls from Cave 11 are absolutely complete and intact. One, the Psalms, will probably prove to be the first or second best of all the material that's been found-perhaps better even than the Isaiah. The Bedouins still have an unknown amount of material. When we can find the money or the donors, we'll be able...