Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is ample evidence that people in the ghetto are aware that they are often bilked-and resent it more than a little. During the 1965 Watts riots, five supermarkets of one chain, in bad odor with local residents, were burned to the ground, while three markets of another chain, which was considered fair, were spared. The chain grocers are now clearly in the spotlight and under duress to do better for the poor...
...Secretary's legendary resilience and competence aside, it is difficult to separate the utility of the innovations McNamara brought into the Pentagon from the foreign policies they served. For example, under McNamara, the size, mobility, and adaptability of U.S. ground, air, and sea forces increased many times over. This novel rapidity in deploying our forces undoubtedly made President Kennedy's limited threats to the Soviets during the Cuban missile crisis more credible and effective...
Halfback Vic Gatto, the 185-pound junior who became one of Harvard's greatest ground gainers, was one of two Crimson players to make the all-star team on offense. The other was guard A1 Bersin...
...spectrometer performs a variety of tasks and is responsible to commands by radio from the ground," he added...
...became a space-age swan, however, Surveyor had a long history as an ugly duckling. The seven-space craft program, originally expected to cost about $50 million and scheduled to begin shooting for the moon in August 1963, will eventually cost $350 million, and did not get off the ground until May 1966. Outraged by delays and rising costs, a congressional subcommittee in 1965 called Surveyor "one of the least orderly and most poorly executed of NASA projects...