Word: closers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could find. He means to do everything that energy and ambition can accomplish to win the election. The Vice President's chair is not quite what he set his sights on as a boy, but it will do-for a while. If the Democrats win, Kefauver will be closer to the presidency than ever before...
Last week, after thinking it over for two weeks, Maria came back-in a modest black dress. The technicians were careful of their camera angles. Less important, perhaps, Maria also correctly placed some lines in Prometheus Bound, bringing her one headline closer to the $8,300 jackpot...
Whether or not Adenauer is entitled to his anger, the fact is that he considers that he had laid his reputation and his political life on the line for Dulles and the U.S. Adenauer's U.S.-inspired foreign policy has failed to bring German reunification any closer. With only a year to go until West Germany's next general election, German voters had been presented with what seemed to them clear evidence that Konrad Adenauer's credit in Washington was decreasing. ("Adenauer," predicted the pro-Socialist Frankfurter Rundschau, "will be overrun by history, just like Syngman Rhee...
...went into production, hauling concentrates laboriously by truck to the railroad at St. Felicien, 125 miles to the southeast. With a world shortage driving copper prices towards records (last week's U.S. price: about 40? a lb.), other companies holding long-neglected Chibougamau claims decided to have a closer look...
...altitude, whipping around the earth every 90 minutes at 1,800 m.p.h. but recent tests indicate that the moon may rise to 1.500 miles in height at the far end of its elliptical orbit, travel at 1,900 m.p.h. As the moon slows in speed, it will dip closer and closer to the earth's atmosphere until, inevitably, it will disappear in a flash of friction...