Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This is like waiting for precinct returns .to come in." Von Braun and Pickering sat down and scribbled some figures. At zero plus in minutes, three California stations reported the pickup. Pickering said: "I want four stations. These are all Army stations, and they may be over enthusiastic." The fourth followed: a Navy tracking station checked in with the confirming news. Announced Pickering: "It's in orbit." Brucker beamed; Von Braun smiled. The Explorer was late, he concluded, because it had shot farther out into space than had been expected, thus had to travel the extra distance...
...trade. Looking for a Republican member of the House Ways and Means Committee to co-sponsor the Administration bill, the White House had to reach past three ardent Republican protectionists-New York's Daniel Reed. Ohio's Thomas Jenkins, Pennsylvania's Richard Simpson-to trap the fourth-ranking Republican, New Jersey's Robert Kean, and he was far from eager...
...years ago all The Netherlands was thrown into an uproar by the disclosure (TIME, June 25, 1956 et seq.) that Queen Juliana had called upon a lady faith healer to restore the sight of her fourth daughter, Princess Maria Christina (nicknamed Marijke). There was talk of the faith healer's insidious influence over the Queen; there were even reports that Juliana and her consort. Prince Bernhard, were so divided on the princess' care that they were considering divorce. But the Queen banished the healer, the furor subsided, and, acting on the advice of physicians, the royal couple decided...
...Colonel Dayan's motorized Israeli units captured Lydda and Ramie, cleared the Negev desert. In 1953 Dayan became chief of staff of Israel's armed forces, plotted the brilliant blitzkrieg in which Israel's army overran the Sinai peninsula and chewed up a fourth of Egypt's army in six days. Last week, a sinewy 42, Major General Moshe Dayan resigned as chief of staff, announced he would enter Jerusalem's Hebrew University to make up the schooling he had missed in 30 years of fighting...
When eleven-year-old Roscoe McGeorge refused to stop playing with cards in the back row of a fourth-grade penmanship class in Cincinnati's Washington Elementary School. Teacher Gayle Graner decided to take appropriate action. She told him to turn over and gave him a paddling. Roscoe's outraged mother had her arrested for assault and battery, but 22-year-old Teacher Graner, though less than a year out of the University of Cincinnati's Teachers College, is not one to be easily intimidated. "Yes. I paddled him," she told reporters. "I have firm ideas...