Word: besting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Captain Keith Colburn is experiencing pain in his right thigh. He did not work out Wednesday and only jogged on Thursday, but he should be able to run Saturday even if he's not at his best...
...benefits, the growth of technology has also heightened man's risks. Today's risky times should be the best of times for Lloyd's of London, which built an international reputation insuring the new, the colossal, and occasionally the preposterous. Yet Lloyd's profits have been slipping since 1963. Last year the world's largest underwriting group for general insurance closed the books on 1965-three years are needed to settle claims-and reported a $91 million loss. Lloyd's last month announced a $44 million loss for 1966, despite a record income...
...West. Then, turning towards the South, 'Friends and comrades!' he said, 'on that side are toil, hunger, nakedness, the drenching storm, desertion, and death; on this side ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches; here, Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best becomes a brave Castilian. For my part, I go to the South.'" It was an epic moment, one of the many, in fact, that The Royal Hunt of the Sun shamelessly overlooks in favor of pop-psych melodramatics. A pity, too, because when this Freudian version of the conquest...
...best explanation for the OSO-IV failure is that a small bubble of gas was trapped in a plastic coating that surrounds the transformer's wire coils. As the gas slowly leaked out it caused a surge of electric current that burnt out the experiment's electric system...
...best example of the dichotomy may have been the "psyche" period before the Penn meet. Penn, as they had let everyone know, was the rising cross-country power in the East. Their freshman team swept Harvard's last fall, and veteran George Lokken was returning...