Word: designate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might happen this fall, for only against great adversity is a man truly tested. Bus did something to Vim and her crew that is rare in the annals of yachting. He took a boat that was hopelessly outclassed by 19 years of technological advances in the field of hull design and breathed a life into her that made Vim the boat to beat. He took a crew of ten men and, with whatever magic it is that certain leaders have, coaxed perfection out of each of them. Bus's defeat at the hands of Corny was proof not that...
...flight testing, the F-lll has fallen more than a year behind schedule. Only last month, a new crop of glitches and some lingering old ones caused combat tests in Viet Nam to be put off for another two months, until December. Nonetheless, far less radical departures in aircraft design have been hobbled by similar delays in the past. In the case of the F-lll, the original blueprints have had to be modified repeatedly to accommodate new electronic gadgetry for which the plane was not designed...
...result of McClellan's jeremiads, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's request for $287 million to buy 20 F-lllBs for Navy testing was rudely rejected by the committee, which approved only $147,900,000 for eight of the swing-wing ships. The higher cost per plane includes design changes and ground-support gear as well as custom fabrication of the plane itself...
...work gracefully dominated the 78,000-sq.-ft. plaza as much by its delicate airiness as by its mass-both a contrast to the rectilinear building and a foil to the splashing fountains. Said Chicago Architect William Hartmann, who originally had persuaded the 85-year-old artist to design the sculpture (gratis) for Chicago: "Picasso's magic is again at work here...
...about Christmas? It should survive eternally. Katz therefore took his earnings from Rite-Kit, set up Paper-craft. He was willing to innovate; among other things, he helped pioneer the change from flat-folded Christmas wrappings to those sold by the roll. His stock in trade is the traditional design -Santa Claus, the Christmas tree, Donner, Blitzen, etc. This has helped him to become the main supplier of Christmas wrapping paper to tradition-minded giants like Sears, Roebuck...