Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close-combat air support. More important, the Army is restricted to a 200-mile range in its surface-to-surface missiles (on the theory that they could be launched 100 miles behind the lines and travel 100 miles beyond). Gone, therefore, was the dream of longer-range Army-built missiles that could (as the Army Information Digest recently said) attack "distant troop concentrations, marshaling areas and communication centers" and destroy "enemy missile sites, atomic stockpiles and airfields." The Army was assigned responsibility for point, i.e., local defense and the franchise on such radar-directed, land-to-air missiles as Nike...
...drafted Lieut. General (ret.) Raymond A. Wheeler, onetime U.S. Army Chief of Engineers. For the 71-year-old Wheeler, canals are an old story. As one of his first Army assignments he took part in the construction of the Panama Canal. "Being a second lieutenant," he recalls, "I practically built it singlehanded, or so I thought, being a second lieutenant...
...these faults were present in the other two works. Why is These Thousand Hills less powerful? Part of the answer lies in the fact that both The Big Sky and The Way West were built on Dick Summers, a nostalgic, self-sufficient mountain man, the finest character Guthrie has produced. But even more important, both books were given unity and direction by the utilization of physical movement through great distance in space. Guthrie conveyed this as successfully as did Tolstoy in War and Peace or Mark Twain in Huckleberry Finn. In These Thousand Hills he gave himself less opportunity...
Despite their initial successes, however, the supporters of the idea remain cautious about their visions of what a Center can accomplish. Effective arguments could be built on the expectation that a school in International Studies at Harvard might make significant contributions to political science. But primary justification for the Center is being drawn instead from the manifest need to correct the currently deplorable situation, in which the University's valuable resources are being squandered through lack of emphasis and coherent organization...
...scenes of underwater life. The archer fish, with fearful accuracy, spits liquid arrows several feet into the air, and bags a butterfly for dinner. The angler fish, looking like nothing but a clump of seaweed, sprouts a fishing pole from its nose, and dangles a tempting piece of built-in bait before a passing mullet. Conclusion: mullet into gullet like a bullet...