Word: ests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chamber has since quit trying to swell the stream, settled down to work on problems-roads, water shortages, etc. -to be multiplied by still more millions of newcomers. In pride and awe, the chamber's California Population Study Committee reported last week on the migrant-swelled statistics (present est. pop. 14,400,000), again upped its forecasts of the near future...
...California's 1965 total (18,100,000) may top New York (est. 16,229,000 in 1958) to make it biggest in the 49 states, keep rising to a staggering 1980 mark of 27.8 million...
...est la chasse d'un tigre," Maigret mutters grimly as the murderer's score mounts. When the tiger has made his fourth kill, Maigret sets a trap. He invents a suspect, credits him with the crimes, counts on the killer (whose vanity has been demonstrated in his challenge to the police) to protest his guilt by attempting a fresh murder-which 500 plainclothesmen stand ready to prevent. The trap springs, but the tiger escapes, and Maigret is forced to track him through some pretty tortuous back alleys of psychology-the sort of area a camera can easily...
WASHINGTON--The Army's goldplated Pioneer III plunged to a fiery death 55 miles above North Africa at 2:51 p.m. EST Sunday...
White said he was confident that the satellite fell shortly after 9:56 a.m. (EST), when it was sighted at the University of Stanford. The fall of the Russian satellite was close to the time predicted by the Smithsonian staff. White explained, because of cloudy winter weather and because Sputnik fell over the sea, no exact time or place of its death...