Word: date
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spokesman for the Institute said yesterday that he was "almost certain" that a date for O'Brian's visit would be agreed upon in the near future...
...yearned to be a mensch, a pillar of the community, but always remained a smalltime schwanz. Commission sleuths assembled a voluminous dossier that told everything-and nothing-about him. They could detail his gross income and net profits for February 1958, but they could not discover his exact birth date and wound up listing eight in the year 1911. They learned that his boyhood nickname was "Sparky," then gave three different reasons for the origin of the name...
...Gobi Desert threw away their compasses and were led out by Mao-think. A North China girl spinner started out tending 100 spindles at a time but, after studying Mao's works, was soon handling 1,600 with ease. Top-quality steel was forthcoming from an out-of-date converter once the operator began "applying the philosophical concepts expounded in Mao Tse-tung's writings." The Peking Review carried an article entitled: "How We Invented a Handy, Light, Well-Finished and Inexpensive Electric Wall-Ramming Machine by Grasping the Principle of Contradiction...
...judgment that this Government should immediately commence a new program in partnership with private industry to develop at the earliest practical date the prototype of a commercially successful supersonic transport superior to that being built in any other country in the world...
...next morning, at a televised press conference, President Johnson was asked about an SST decision. "We don't have any definite date," snapped Johnson. "General McKee will have an announcement in connection with it shortly." As it happened, "shortly" turned out to be "now" because officials concerned forgot about the one-hour time difference between Washington and Texas. At the same moment, Federal Aviation Agency Administrator William F. McKee in the capital was telling another press conference about the Boeing-General Electric decision...