Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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California has long been fertile ground for cults. As early as 1840, William Money, who claimed to have met Christ on the streets of New York City, came to California preaching the world was shaped like a fish. He offered miraculous healing powers, treated 5,000 patients, became involved in politics, and was finally exposed by the press...
...border have been replacing their aging Sheridan tanks with factory-fresh M60s. These fire faster and more accurately than the Sheridans and carry the latest night-fighting devices. U.S. antitank capability has been bolstered by ten helicopter companies, each with 21 new Cobras, armed with the TOW missile. U.S. ground forces are receiving extra field guns and a new multipurpose artillery shell that combines a large explosive force with armor-piercing ability...
...concerned about what I consider a slackening of the performing mores on the part of middle-level employees on the one hand, and a slackening of concern about the responsibilities of management on the other," he said. His current job, he added, will let him "get in on the ground floor" to help create responsible public servants...
...snowed lightly the first two days as we put on our parkas and our warm--ups and rode the lifts. There was already a lot of snow on the ground-nice lightsvowder, came to right above your ankles, perfect conditions for "the powder capital of the West." On the third day, the sky turned mean and the wind whipped though your warmups. It was lunch when it happened-you felt it at first, the Snow Pine lodge shook a little and the earth rumbled but there was nothing to see from the window. The earth shook, nothing, mind you, like...
...real danger is that "the agreements might be insufficiently comprehensive, making ground forces in the European theater a new area of competition," Warnke said...