Word: got
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 for a minimal, low-priority program, misnamed Project Vanguard. In retrospect, it was no wonder that the U.S.S.R. got into space first...
...tangled and jealousies flourish. Nobody in the Pentagon, from Defense Secretary Neil McElroy down, has been able to explain where Roy Johnson's bailiwick ends and Herb York's begins. York considers himself Johnson's boss; Johnson disagrees. Last year ARPA and the Air Force got into a prolonged squabble over whether or not U.S.A.F. would be stenciled on an Air Force rocket assigned to ARPA...
...fourth quarter in last Saturday's football game, Cornell fullback Phil Taylor took a pass from quarterback Dave McKelvey, got past two Harvard defenders, and scored on a 76-yard touchdown play that put the Big Red ahead for the first time all afternoon, 18 to 16. It hardly mattered that McKelvey passed to John Sadusky in the end zone for two more points; the varsity had lost after building up a seemingly insurmountable lead. The defeat, shocking and demoralizing in its suddenness, had a profound effect on players, coaches, and spectators that did not disappear for a long time...
...year after he came to Amherst, Latham became chairman of the political science department there, a position he has held for the last ten years. "I got the feeling when I went to Amherst that a Caucasian gets when he goes to China, that everyone looks alike." Latham talks about what he calls the "class homogeneity" of Amherst. "We don't really have a 'beatnik' element, or the extreme contrast of the very rich and the very poor...
...Henry himself? In the quiet of his laboratory he looks at the floor and grins a little. "I got two fruit juices this morning, actually...