Word: flooringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time out to get a master's degree in mechanical engineering at Stanford University, was a B-17 pilot in the Pacific in World War II. Always immersed in research and development problems, he was assigned to the Pentagon after the war, there moved in on the ground floor of missilery...
...great political art of compromise has held the Democratic Party together. The South warned the party, and the Civil Rights plank of the Democratic platform was considerably watered down. In 1956, to the dissatisfaction of most liberals, Harry Truman himself averted an intra-party fight by dramatically taking the floor and calling for party unity at all costs...
...however, that provides the necessary finesse. He handles the group scenes especially effectively; indeed, the best moment of the evening comes in scene four, when the priest is saying a makeshift Mass in the hut of the woman whose daughter he fathered. As the townspeople, genuflecting on the dirt floor, devoutly listen to the Latin words, Stephen Randall '60 (who does an excellent job in several bit parts) bursts into the hut with a warning that the police are three minutes away. The shock of this pronouncement frightens even the audience...
...likely place to start drilling is north of Puerto Rico, where the deep ocean floor lies conveniently close to San Juan's harbor. The project's cost might be $20 million at most, or perhaps only $5,000,000. Nobody knows where the money will come from, but an AMSOC daydreamer is not easily discouraged...
...gotta really ruffle up the floor...