Word: closed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...threat to the peace, and if the West should try to force its way through a Berlin blockade, "the flames of war would inevitably spread to the American continent, for today's military techniques have virtually eliminated the difference between distant theaters of war and those close at hand...
...White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico the Army rocketed a Nike-Hercules into the sky to intercept an XQ-5 jet drone target traveling 14 miles up at more than 2,000 m.p.h. The Nike released a spotting charge near the drone that was close enough to be scored as a kill...
...U.S.S.R. that were really much more eye-opening than his flashy predictions of increased farm production. These comparisons (see below) gave a truer picture of how far Khrushchev really is from equaling the U.S., and how harshly he must clamp down if he would close the gap. He found it necessary to increase his menaces against the "antiparty" group, and to blame them for the defects in Soviet planning. Molotov, Kaganovich and Malenkov, by opposing his virgin lands development, gave him a beautiful issue on which he can and does skewer them...
...Clutch. Hockey players are considered old at 30. At 37, the Rocket is admittedly past his peak; yet he has still managed 14 goals and 19 assists this season to tie for third place in the scoring standings. No one in the league is close to his career marks for goals (603); only Detroit's Gordie Howe can approach his mark for total points (Richard 1,047, Howe 942). The Rocket still holds the record for most goals in one season (50 in an abbreviated 50-game season, 1944-45). He is also one of the game...
...father ran a greenhouse in Saginaw, Mich., and Roethke spent his childhood in the steaming, close atmosphere of growing things. Perhaps as a result, his imagery has an easy intimacy with slugs, birds, frogs, snakes, and in his deep disaffection for the world of men, he often seems happier to inhabit that simpler world. "I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another," he writes. "With bats, weasels, worms-I rejoice in the kinship...