Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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investor bid stock prices up to giddy highs, concentrating particularly on producers of the new scientific wonders-transistors, computers and space-age gear...
...drive for re-election was in high gear. "Bush for Senate" stickers studded walls at Republican headquarters. From Hartford's Bond Hotel, his campaign staff passed out buttons and bumper strips, ordered placards for his triumphal renomination at the Connecticut G.O.P...
TIME's otherwise brilliant article on General Paul Harkins and the Viet Nam war [May 11] overlooks a serious failing in our guerrilla warfare efforts-language. A U.S. Ranger in full combat gear seems far less like an intruder in a remote village if he can speak Vietnamese with its inhabitants. Yet even Special Forces troops in Viet Nam rarely receive more than a four-week cram course in local language and culture before beginning their assignments...
After a spark of spring excitement, were back to the dreary form. The of the spring phenoms--this year it the A's Manny Jimenez--dropped below 400 in his B.A.; Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris moved into gear--Mantle three homeruns in Sunday's double-header against Washington; and the bounced Cleveland out of first to the only possible question...
fter a spark of spring excitement. were back to the dreary form. The of the spring phenoms--this year it the A's Manny Jimenez--dropped 400 in his B.A.; Mickey Mantle and Maris moved into gear--Mantle three homeruns in Sunday's doubleder against Washington; and the bounced Cleveland out of first to the only possible question...