Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press their leapfrog luck too far. Leaving a fortune behind, they took only $28,000 worth of jewelry, and for the fourth and last time locked their doors behind them. Their record take: goods worth $700,000, chosen so judiciously for size and value that the whole caboodle would fit in a suitcase...
...make up for the lost years and close the military-missile gap. The military job of a ballistic missile is not to go to the moon but to hit an earthly target from a launching site elsewhere on the earth, and U.S. missiles appear to be about as fit for that job as their Soviet counterparts. But in concentrating on closing the gap in military-missile technology, the Eisenhower Administration neglected the challenge of space. When the U.S. undertook its first serious space project in mid-1955, as part of the International Geophysical year effort, the Administration settled...
...Khrushchev visit, according to the reports given the President, was the U.S.S.R.'s Ambassador to the U.S. Mikhail ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov, who missed no chance to downgrade the U.S. to his boss. U.S. officials reasoned that Menshikov had been tailoring his reports on the U.S. so as to fit Kremlin conceptions, and that he was trying to justify his misreporting during the Khrushchev visit. When Khrushchev received a cap as a gift on the West Coast, Menshikov went into elaborate detail about the Italian hat industry's being far superior. Spotting a small cloud...
...There is nobody we would rather have. The Americans fit right in." So says Canada's Citizenship and Immigration Minister Ellen Fairclough, and this week her department is backing its sentiments with action. Two Canadian information offices are opening in Los Angeles and Minneapolis to supplement existing offices in New York and Chicago. Their purpose: to offer all help "short of money" to desirable U.S. citizens interested in moving to Canada on a permanent basis...
...steel was ordered. Piece by piece, the men welded and bolted it into a single sheet, shaped it to fit the curve of the hull. Day after day, Deir, his face stubbled and grimy, his clothes soaked with oil, drove himself and the men unmercifully. Summer warmed the sea, the sun blistered their backs, and threats of heavy weather hung over them like a time bomb...