Word: closers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Only a handful of Americans knew Nautilus' secret mission-an 8,146-mile voyage from Pearl Harbor to Portland, England, via the North Pole. Last August and September Nautilus had probed under the ice pack in a little-noticed voyage, got within 180 miles of the Pole and closer than any ship had gone before. Last December Nautilus' developer, Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover, predicted that Nautilus would go to the Pole "in the not too distant future," added, "I venture to say that it will go down as one of history's greatest feats of exploration...
...forces to Lebanon to protect a small government against threats of subversion was being accepted in the Middle East as the most significant display of Western strength and determination since Korea; 3) U.S. policies over the last fortnight, far from alienating world opinion, had brought the Western nations closer together than they had been for years, and seriously impressed staunch Western friends among the newly independent countries...
...trip-hammer blows forced John McClellan to change cherished plans to retire from the Senate and set up a law practice with John. But the blows also drew him closer to his surviving children, two daughters and a third son, James. Then young Jimmy went to the University of Arkansas law school. "I really didn't know what I wanted to be," said he, "but I wanted to be close to my father." The Senator made new plans. He established Jimmy in a practice, planned to leave Capitol Hill in 1960 and join the firm...
...record 123.7 in June. There were also some good business reasons. The depressed machine-tool industry noted a 7% rise in new orders from May to June. Second-quarter earnings in some key industries showed a better recovery than expected, indicating that a snapback in profits may be closer than previously anticipated. Many investors were also quite obviously influenced by the headlines from the Middle East; they expected the crisis to reverse inventory liquidation, start a buildup, particularly among hard-goods manufacturers, whose stocks are down sharply...
Cabell came closer to the era than Fitzgerald, for his symbolism grew out of America's new awareness of sex. His audience ranked him with Poe, Whitman, and Twain. He was an institution, property of campus esoterics; and a legend--a mysterious collector of medieval lore, a scholar in "forbidden topics," a familiar in strange compacts with the devil--and, wrote Carl Van Doren, a rumored participator in "misdemeanors not so spiritual...