Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Geological Survey, an arm of the Interior Department that has the responsibility of enforcing federal laws governing drilling, Union Oil went ahead and drilled A21. Having burrowed down 3,500 ft. below the ocean floor, the riggers than began to retrieve the pipe in order to replace a drill bit. At a point during the withdrawal, the drilling "mud," which is constantly pumped into the well to maintain pressure, became dangerously inadequate for the job. The well blew. An initial attempt to cap the hole was successful, but that led to a tremendous buildup of pressure. The expanding mass widened...
...football team that he molded to greatness. So, after a year of restless prowling in the executive inner sanctum, Lombardi signaled a new play: a transfer to the National Football League's moribund Washington Redskins as head coach. The Packers' board tried blocking him for a bit but finally yielded. His new contract calls for "a substantial portion of equity," rumored to be 5% of the Redskin stock, worth $500,000. Skins fans, who last savored a national championship in 1942, are already worrying about tickets for next year's title match...
...TROUBLE with the world, the boy modestly thought to himself, is not very hard to pin down: the trouble is that the world is unhappy. Jesse Kornbluth wrote in the CRIMSON, "I am a bit lonely here, I'm bored. . . We've felt so much, tried so hard in so many ways to bring some real humanity into the academy, and we've failed." Ten days ago Joel Kramer described the "incompleteness" he felt as he prepared to graduate. "Will I ever stop feeling so leaden-lazy; will I ever find something I want to do? . . . Harvard pulls hard...
...Since then, as the League's director, he has spent much of his time trying to convince Americans that they don't really want planes whooshing through their skies at supersonic speeds. More specifically, Shurcliffe wants to convince Congressmen. Since the federal government is being asked to shell out, bit-by-bit, most of the $1 billion it will take to get the first supersonic transports (SSTs) into the air, the League feels that turning off the federal financial tap will effectively ground the SSTs...
...little bit bigger than what we're used to, but it's pretty-well under control," said Maurice Rice, relief foreman for Building and Grounds. The relief foreman's job is to take over on the foreman's day off. The foreman was off Sunday and Monday this week, Rice said...