Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with $1,200,000 less worth of insect repellent than it had ordered. The Air Force learned that it could safely stretch storage life of the solid propellant for its Minuteman missiles from three to our years, saving $25 million. Not even the old memento of service days, the dog tag, was safe. By ordering tags of corrosion-resistant steel instead of an alloy, McNamara shaved 1.60 from each one for a total saving of $97,000 on the year's supply...
Necessary Evil. None of this preparation prevents some exam takers from ludicrous answers. But in most cases the schools serve the bar examiners' seeming demand-what one Tennessee law dean calls "a Pavlov dog reaction." Says he: "It would be horrible if universities taught people how to pass law exams. We should teach people how to think and act like lawyers, not how to memorize cases." Many bar examiners are now steering toward that standard. But most law schools and bar examiners are still so far apart that the only way for law students to travel from...
...Paragon of productive diversity, the city turns out candy and caskets, chemicals and containers, animal feed and jet aircraft. Its International Shoe Co. is the nation's biggest shoemaker, Budweiser the biggest brewer. It is the nation's second largest rail center. It served the first hot dog and the first ice-cream cone, was the site of the first balloon race. The corncob pipe was invented there. The first operation to remove a man's lung was performed there...
Before the sixth race of the day, which had an entry of six greyhounds, innocent dog players at the track also began to notice that something was up; they found it impossible to get to any of the 31 betting windows. Already ahead of them in line were tough characters who were taking their own sweet time placing two-shilling (280) bets, counting out the sums in small coins and brushing off protests with a snarl. The insiders were placing all their money on "forecast combinations" on the three dogs most likely to lose, thereby running up the odds...
...atheist with the flawless legal touch when persuading courts to ban school prayers or cancel tax breaks or churches (TIME, May 15), suddenly found herself in a peck of trouble with the law. Last week, she packed up her mother, her brother, two sons, daughter-in-law, cat and dog and flew to Hawaii. Madalyn's family thereby 1) jumped bail bonds totaling $8,750, 2) violated two Baltimore court orders, 3) fled a dozen charges ranging from assault to contempt of court...