Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind his words was the apparition nicknamed IBM (for intercontinental ballistic missile), which is hurled hundreds of miles into the stratosphere to fall on its target. An IBM could super-whoosh along at 4,000 to 5,000 miles an hour and cross the Atlantic in as little as 30 or 40 minutes. Automatic navigation on the stars should keep the error at target within eight miles, a near miss with an atomic warhead...
...villain, he became the U.N.'s No. 1 crowd-puller. He brought a kind of energy to the staid U.N. and many delegates liked to cross swords with him, watch him flail the table with his fists, see the top of his head go pink with anger. Some diplomats had a certain sympathy for him, but Vishinsky never allowed sympathy to break through his guard, constantly embarrassed hosts and guests with personal attacks. "Lots of venal people dislike their work," said Britain's Soviet Specialist Edward Crankshaw. "Vishinsky was venal but happy." In the strange and somber matrix...
...addition, the Red Cross has taken students' schedules into account more carefully, and has attempted to arrange appointments that do not conflict with classes...
Round robin competition within the Ivy Group will probably be extended to include six sports--cross country, fencing, lacrosse, soccer, squash, and wrestling--following this week's meetings of the eight Ivy Group Athletic Directors, it was learned last night...
...football began here, no Crimson eleven was allowed to play more than two games away from home. In 1949, however, one did so anyway. In direct opposition to the regulations of the Faculty Committee on Athletic Sports, the squad not only played Columbia and Yale there, but it flew cross country to return an engagement with Stanford. Although the Crimson lost, 44 to 0, it defended it excess travelling on the grounds that the game was played before school actually opened...