Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nearly half the patients suffered from persistent painful ulceration...
Singing contestants and sagging ratings killed the quizzes. Twenty One, The $64,000 Question, The $64,000 Challenge, and half a dozen other intellectual pretenders are buried. The fancy "Fantastics" that were supposed to herald a trend -Invisible Man and World of Giants-have yet to find sponsors. Patti Page and Buddy Bregman, with their variety shows, will be dropped in March; Man with a Camera, a freelance photographer's adventures, was a flop from the start, will also disappear next month. Behind Closed Doors, a cloak-and-daguerreotype, is almost sure to follow. Even laughter is losing...
...jukebox set is again on a crying jag: hangings, murders, deaths, burials and blighted loves are the subjects they want a man to sing about. And ever since Johnny Cash came out of the Arkansas delta, he has been singing about sorrow with spectacular success. In four years, half a hundred Cash-composed songs have sold more than 6,000,000 records. The biggest Cash hit, Walk the Line, passed the million mark with ease; the latest, Don't Take Your Guns to Town, is well on its way to repeating that performance...
...line can be drawn on a chart to show all such positions, other lines to show places at unequal distances (half as far, 0.8 as far, etc.). The receiver simultaneously measures the distance from the third slave station, and this information generates other theoretical lines on the chart. If the airplane is on two lines of different sets, it must be at their point of intersection...
...fuel in vast abundance. A quick and valuable byproduct of oceanography will be improved knowledge of the conditions governing submarine warfare. The committee did not mention, but was well aware, that Russia is pushing oceanography vigorously, has an estimated 14 large oceanographic research ships, while the U.S. has only half a dozen that are at all comparable...