Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nike, etc.), and the Huntsville Arsenal's intermediate-range Jupiter turned out to be the first U.S. missile to launch a satellite in the embarrassing days after Sputnik I. But the high cost of shooting minds and money on Big Space worried Army thinkers who were certain that hard ground-war planning and weaponry had been neglected in the process. The Army has yet to replace the heavy, obsolete M-1 rifle with the officially approved, fast-firing M-14, to replace the World War I .30-cal. machine gun with the new M60, or to come up with...
...First invite the Harvard Trustees out to look the place over; then play a little coy, a little hard to get (consolidation); but leave the door open. It's still too early to hope for Radvard or Harcliffe University, and Radcliffe University is a long ways in the future. But we can wait...
Even of Dudley House does succeed in attracting a hard core of "resident commuters," however, its problems as a commuter center are far from solved. In an article in the Dudley Reporter (the House's dittographed newspaper), a student claims that, for 80 per cent of commuters, "Dudley is no more than an occasional snack bar, and a ping-pong and dance hall for most of the others." He continues: "The same names appear with monotonous regularity in the House Committee, Dance Committee, sports events, at dances, and on the Reporter's masthead. The number of Dudley...
Kopit has an unusual talent for working hard and getting things done. One suspects he must write swiftly because one reads him swiftly. One imagines he spends his time thinking out what he will write, because he avoids the confusion and inconsistency that often infect work by young writers...
...last, the adventurers in the jungle town of Cuchazu have struck it rich-diamonds, diamonds, diamonds. But they never cash in. The government steps in and takes over the diggings for the state. Troops arrive to make the decree stick, and the hard-drinking prospectors, dregs of all nations, begin to talk about a revolt. When the posturing troop commander decides to execute one of his corporals for picking up some gems, a nightmarish wave of violence washes over the filthy mining town. Six people escape, board a small native boat and head into the jungle. One is a priest...