Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Complacency. The U.S. can count up a dozen successful space shots of its own since Sputnik I, but in a broad view of the space-technology race, the U.S. has greater cause for alarm in October 1959 than it had in October 1957. Two years ago it seemed certain that the U.S., jolted out of complacency by Sput nik I, would proceed to catch up in a hurry. But the U.S. is still lagging behind...
...strike was plainly necessary. It had dragged on into the longest nationwide steel strike in U.S. history. The huge steel inventories piled up in warehouses when the strike began back in mid-July had dwindled so drastically that manufacturers were starting to schedule layoffs for lack of steel. A dozen appliance manufacturers warned that they would have to shut down completely by mid-October unless the strike ended...
...nerves without any steerage"), he did not try to go commercial until two years ago, when a local music-store owner heard him sing The Battle of New Orleans and sent him to a folk-song-conscious music publisher in Nashville, Tenn. The song took off in half a dozen different records, which stood to earn Jimmie more than $100,000, and abruptly ended his teaching career...
...dozen Oklahoma players had suffered food poisoning two nights before, but Northwestern still looked strong enough to beat the Sooners at their healthiest, scampered all over their home stadium to win, 45-13, hand Oklahoma Coach Bud Wilkinson his worst defeat in twelve spectacular years (114 won, 11 lost...
...With a dozen first-class engineers, Ed Cole for four years designed and discarded scores of wooden mockups. He tried everything: front engine with front-wheel drive, front engine with rear-wheel drive, rear engine with front-wheel drive, but he always returned to rear engines with rear-wheel drive. By the spring of 1956, when Cole's team produced a prototype power plant and suspension, he disguised it with a German Porsche body shell. One of Cole's friends recalls the scene that day at the Chevy Engineering Center. "Ed jumped...