Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidency is a model standing at the pinnacle of the nation's life. What others may do, he may not always or even ever do, but what he does in his private life lends itself to imitation throughout the land." Few politicians are yet ready to count Rocky out of the 1964 race, although they seem to agree that he no longer seems so certain to get the G.O.P. nomination. Much of the adverse reaction, they note, is based on the fact that Dr. Murphy now has possession of his and Happy's four children. While the divorce...
...placing happiness where common men place it, in comfort, he places it in a higher kind of inner excitement, which converts discomforts into sources of cheer and annuls unhappiness. So he turns his back upon no duty, however thankless; and when we are in need of assistance, we can count upon the saint lending his hand with more certainty than we can count upon any other person.... Felicity, purity, charity, patience, self-severity--these are splendid excellencies, and the saint of all men shows them in the completest measure...
...dial-studded cabinet on the Navy's test ship Compass Island lies a hollow sphere of beryllium no bigger than a baseball. It has no visible means of support, yet it spins at 30,000 r.p.m. Awed naval technicians call it a "star in a bottle," and they count on that man-made star to tell nuclear submarines exactly where they are, even after months of cruising in black ocean deeps...
...steadily (see chart). The latest census of the American Machinist magazine (taken only every five years) showed last week that 64% of the nation's machine tools are now ten or more years old v. only 38% in 1945. Though many of the older machines included in the count are not in use because enough newer ones are available to satisfy current demand, the census nevertheless is a dramatic warning that U.S. industry is in danger of getting rusty...
...Tammany threw an arm around President Cleveland, who had complained that a bill he favored was unconstitutional, and growled: "What's the Constitution between friends?" Davy Crockett campaigned for the House on the basis of shooting 109 bears in a year (nonsense, scoffed an opponent, Davy could not count that high...