Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clarion Notice. "We are of the opinion," the Senators said, "that we cannot in good conscience ask our ground forces to continue their fight in South Viet Nam unless we are prepared to press the air war in the North in the most effective way possible. What is needed now is to take the risks that have to be taken and apply the force that is required to see the job through...
...ground that it "might incriminate me," the former Minister refused to say what he did with the money that Groves gave him. It was "mere coincidence," Sir Stafford insisted, that Groves and his associates also agreed to contribute $10,000 a month to Sir Stafford's United Bahamian Party while the casino applications were under consideration...
...late Pleistocene epoch (10,000 to 200,000 years ago) fossil remains containing well-preserved collagen. Chemically analyzing the collagen in fossil specimens recovered from Los Angeles' famed La Brea tar pits, he applied his formula and calculated the temperatures of such extinct species as the browsing ground sloth, the dire wolf, the short-faced bear and the saber-toothed...
Without exception, he found that his estimates of body temperatures of the fossil animals were within 3% of the normal temperatures of their modern descendants. The estimated temperature of the browsing ground sloth, for example, was about 96° F., only two degrees above the temperature of its modern contemporary, the two-toed sloth...
...Erie. "I was flabbergasted. I couldn't see land. Nothing. I could see the other parachutes going into the water." A passing boat rescued Coy and Bernard Johnson; two other chutists delayed their drop in order to jump from a still higher altitude and landed safely on the ground. A five-day search turned up ten bodies including one woman. The other six were presumed drowned...