Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first word came of the shot's success, Project Pioneer's scientists, technicians and observers threw off the guarded reserve that they had built up over months of missile woes, were all but hysterical with joy. When Cape Canaveral's pencil-mustached Major General Donald Yates walked into a press conference, newsmen rose and applauded. In Hawthorne, Calif., at the Data Reduction Center of Ramo-Wooldridge's Space Technology Laboratories (the Air Force's top moon-probe contractor), Air Force officers and civilians whooped and pounded one another. In the Pentagon, top brass cheerfully poured...
...Communist guns that ring Quemoy fell silent, the shell-pocked island exploded into industrious activity. Farmers worked round the clock getting in a belated harvest; housewives, blinking happily at the unfamiliar sun, pounded away at the backlog of laundry that had built up during Communist barrages. Off Liao-lo Beach an endless parade of vessels, ranging from huge, wallowing LSDs down to motorized junks, disgorged the sinews of war-food, oil, ammunition, spanking-new U.S. -made 155-mm. howitzers and replacement tanks...
...face-saving in Sendai City, 190 miles north of Tokyo, was a symptom of the ills that have turned Japan's press into a flabby-muscled giant. The 186 Japanese dailies have built up a daily circulation of nearly 36 million, trail only the U.S. (58 million) and Russia (57 million), exceed the rest of Asia, Africa and South America combined. In ratio to population, the Japanese circulation approximates that of the U.S., far exceeds Russia's. Biggest Japanese daily is Tokyo's outsized Asahi, which has four regional publishing plants and a staff of more than...
...Finnegan. After a year with me he went on to Harvard and subsequently graduated after a stint in the Navy. He very quickly displayed the same type of talent for arranging that Anderson had displayed before him and so a considerable library of Finnegan's work has been built up and is used continually by the Band. A partial list follows...
University College is experiencing an upsurge of interest in the dramatic arts, and its newly-built campus theatre has facilities far superior to those provided at Harvard. Recent productions include HMS Pinafore, Shaw's Gentle People, and Mozart's opera, The Magic Flute. The director, a young and, not unexpectedly, bearded Englishman, felt satisfied with the calibre of the performers, but voiced the eternal plaint of the director in every land: his major problem was simply to remain solvent...