Word: fall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...splashed down in a pattern. That design, when superimposed on a map of U.S. missile sites, was found to coincide with the distribution of ICBM silos. "There isn't any question," Nixon said, "that it is a multiple weapon, and its footprints indicate that it just happens to fall in somewhat the precise area in which our Minuteman silos are located...
...growers' group, admitted: "We are definitely hurting. It is costing us more to produce and sell our grapes than we are getting for them." Despite unusually large purchases by the Department of Defense, which Chavez's backers have hotly criticized, reduced consumer demand has caused prices to fall as much...
...prodigy, Tom is a prodigious toiler who started taking college courses while still at Shawnee High School in Springfield, Ohio, trained himself to read 750 words a minute, and arrived at Wittenberg last fall having already earned 15½ of the 36 credits needed for graduation. During his combined freshman-senior year, Tom earned twelve more credit hours by taking exams in courses that he did not even attend, finished the remaining 8½ credits by the old-fashioned method of going to classes. Last week he graduated summa cum laude from Wittenberg with a straight-A average. "This...
...school on a full tuition scholarship, having rejected similar offers from three other top law schools-Duke, Chicago and Harvard. He hopes to become a lawyer (and future politician) as fast as he became a college graduate. For one thing, he has a family speed record to defend. Next fall his younger brother James will enter Wittenberg-with 20 out of the required 36 credits. If he maintains Tom's pace, James will also graduate in one year, but at the age of 18, compared with...
...with a simple, bluesy, rhythmic, straight-ahead sound. That's not bad. San Francisco-based Creedence is riding the crest of today's strongest pop wave-blues-oriented rock. The group's first single, Susie Q., rose to No. 11 on the Billboard charts last fall. Proud Mary was hit No. 2 in March, and the group's latest single, Bad Moon Rising, rose this week from No. 3 to No. 2. At recent concert dates, Creedence has been packing the crowds in with its lean, masculine sound, impeccable instrumental style and express-track delivery...