Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five civilians, along with a detail from the 100-man battery, had already converted three Nikes that day: so routine was their operation that the no-danger yellow light glowed on the battery control panel. The team started its fourth and final conversion shortly after 1 p.m.-began a familiar process in which it removed a warhead, took off the old trigger and its brackets, replaced them with a new trigger and brackets. Somewhere in that process on the fourth missile there was a mishap. Suddenly the missile blew with a roar and a sky-searing pillow of orange flame...
...sands of time for the Fourth Republic's parliamentary regime seemed to be running...
John DuMoulin threw the hammer 173 feet, 9 inches to place fourth behind B.U.'s John Lawlor, whose throw of 198 feet, 8 inches was a new meet record. However, neither Jim Doty nor Dunc Johnson was able to advance beyond the trials...
Last year, the varsity tied for fourth with 12 points on the strength of a hammer win by Pete Harpel, thirds in the low hurdles and two-mile by Landau and Reider, and a fifth in the two-mile by Dyke Benjamin...
Charlie Wolle placed third, one length behind Adair, while Joe Hajek and Carl Darcy finished fourth and fifth respectively, trailing by an estimated 10 and 13 lengths...