Word: cited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that hovered a mile away. The eruption was over in less than two minutes, but its reverberations would shake more than helicopters. This was the first test of United Aircraft Corp.'s big, new solid-fuel rocket engine, and it was completely successful. Partisans of solid fuel will cite it proudly in claiming for solids a bigger role in the U.S. space effort...
...childhood. As a girl, she supposedly belonged to a Hitlerite youth group. In school in Italy during her late teens, at a time when three of her brothers served in the Wehrmacht, she was heard to defend Nazi Germany. That is about the only fact her critics can cite to support their case. After marrying Paul in 1938, Frederika fled Greece under Nazi bombardment, lived in exile in Egypt and South Africa until...
...Hotel de la Cite is set inside the medieval fortress city of Carcassonne, accessible both to the French Riviera and the Spanish Costa Brava. Built 120 years ago on the ruins of the former episcopal palace, it has 70 rooms ranging in price from $6 to $15 a day, including tax, service and breakfast...
...inner calmness that lets him ycut through crisis and make his decisions from a base of mature reflection. Ike likes to cite Napoleon to the effect that the true genius in war is one who can do the average thing when those around him grow hysterical with emotion or fright...
Time to Doubt. Navy officers point to the use of carriers to dramatize U.S. power merely by steaming into crisis areas, such as those in Lebanon and the Formosa Straits in 1958. They cite the key role of the Enterprise and the Independence in the Cuba quarantine last fall, claim that carrier aircraft would provide mobile bases to deliver a nuclear punch in a big war, could support ground action almost anywhere in a small one, would be indispensable in seeking out enemy submarines. Declares one admiral about Mc Namara's doubters: "There's always the need...