Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wright said SNCC officials hope by crash education programs to enable large numbers of Negroes to pass the literacy test required in both states. Most of those who had attempted to register before had failed them; Harvard and Radcliffe students will participate in one of these programs in Selma, Ala., this summer...
President Johnson had the considerable courage to cut hard in defense spending despite the obvious pressures from the military and some areas of industry. Three things helped him achieve a defense cut of more than $1 billion. First, many of the crash programs launched when Kennedy entered the White House have now been paid for, including the building up of the Army from eleven flabby divisions to 16 combat-ready units. Second, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's cost-reduction program is expected to trim hundreds of millions from the next budget. Finally, as one Pentagon official...
...that apart from the 1-1250 series anybody could order any combination of letters and numbers up to five characters merely by paying an extra fee of $25. Already, customers in search of identity have paid the price, requesting such diverse nomenclature as GWHIZ, MINE, YOURS, RELAX, SMILE, TRASH, CRASH...
...jury's unpredictable sympathies. About half the time, in fact, juries in personal-injury cases decide for the defendant rather than the person claiming to be hurt. Yet some juries are markedly munificent. A Philadelphia jury gave $500,000 to a man injured in a taxi crash who claimed he suffered "excessive pain" in his back when anything touched it, even his clothing. A San Diego woman, arms and legs paralyzed, blinded in one eye, her speech and hearing impaired by a collision with a police...
...Yields don't depend upon the system. It's merely a matter of the U.S.'s producing more mineral fertilizer." Fertilizer, for so long the essential ingredient of barnyard humor, has become a vital factor in the economic cold war, and Khrushchev has launched a costly crash program to quadruple Russia's output of plant food...