Word: deckered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quandary of Surpluses. Chemical insecticides are now a necessary part of modern U.S. agriculture, whose near-miraculous efficiency has turned the ancient tragedy of recurrent famine into the biologically happy problem of what to do with food surpluses. Says Entomologist George C. Decker of the Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station: "If we in North America were to adopt a policy of 'Let nature take its course,' as some individuals thoughtlessly advocate, it is possible that these would-be experts would find disposing of the 200 million surplus human beings even more perplexing than the disposition of America...
Skinny Candidate. Powers was an unemployed Air Force veteran living with his sister back in 1946 when a young man appeared at the door of their Charlestown three-decker and said: "My name is John Kennedy. I'm going to be a candidate for Congress, and I'd like to have you with me." The meeting turned into friendship, and Powers, who was said to know almost everyone in Charlestown by his first name, soon was leading Kennedy up and down the back steps of the neighborhood's countless three-deckers, popping into kitchens where neighbors pledged...
...years. Harkins had a tour as commandant of cadets at West Point and a year in Korea, serving first as Taylor's chief of staff and then as commander, respectively, of the 45th and 24th Divisions. He was on duty in Hawaii when Army Chief of Staff George Decker recommended him to President Kennedy for the Saigon post...
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Economics and Brush Fires. John Kennedy was grim as he faced the group. He talked rapidly; Army Secretary Elvis Stahr and Army Chief of Staff George Decker both started to take notes, could barely keep up. In the cold war, said Kennedy, the U.S. faces two major challenges. One is economic, but the U.S. can and will intensify its economic contest with the Soviet Union. The other threat is military-probably not on the cataclysmic scale of all-out nuclear war but rather in the form of Communistexploited brush fires throughout the world. In Communist jargon, these are known...