Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even the local legal ground rules were strained by Kinsey's trial; under Tanzanian law, the verdict is rendered by two assessors before it is either accepted or rejected by the presiding judge. Assessors are supposed to be familiar with the customs of the accused's tribe, and Kinsey had to settle for one U.S. citizen, Soil Conservationist Gail Bagley of Elsberry, Mo. The second assessor was a bespectacled Tanzanian economist, Fred Mugobi, who was at least American-educated. The defense counsel was a British-trained, Kenya-born attorney of Greek parentage-Byron Georgiadis...
...wife, Kinsey said, she got to her feet, even though blood was gushing from her head. He said that she was screaming his name and crying, "Oh, my God!" over and over. Before he could reach her, she fell on her face and flailed around on the ground...
...budget, program and control the research and development effort of the Air Force"-ten years before becoming its first chief in 1961. Under him, the command managed a wide assortment of complex programs and projects that ranged from aerospace medical research to combat and transport aircraft, from an automated ground guidance system for interceptor operations to military communications satellites. The Systems Command also worked out administrative techniques, now being widely copied by other Government agencies, for shepherding new technical projects from the planning stage to full-fledged operation...
...seven columns soon isolated the Nationalists in their cities and drew them out for costly battles that chewed up whole divisions without gaining ground for either side. Bled and battered, the Nationalist-held cities began to fall: by October 1948, Lin's forces held Mukden, Changchun and the Liaotung Peninsula, and had killed or captured 400,000 of Chiang's troops (including 36 generals replete with their arsenals). Then, advancing an average of six miles a day, Lin struck out for Peking, which fell 1"5 weeks later...
...thought Cox. Not quite. Slightly misjudging the tide and wind on his starboard side, McNamara headed straight for the second mark-giving Cox, who had shrewdly angled to windward to blanket McNamara's sails, the chance to skim first around the buoy. Frantically trying to make up lost ground, McNamara and his crew then did the incredible once again. The spinnaker was billowing; then as they jibed, flutter, flutter, there it was, snarled around the headstay. This time it took 2 min. 35 sec. to un tangle the mess, and by then Bill Cox was well ahead and home...