Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blustery winter, a well-known admiral turned into the hospital with a slight touch of the flu. Being a high-ranking officer, he also rated a Marine sentry. One mid-April afternoon, when one sentry was supposed to be on the job in front of the admiral's door, the chair was unoccupied and remained that way for the rest of the day. It seems that the admiral had invited the sentry to accompany him to the opening game of the major-league baseball season, providing his car, cigars and box seats for the occasion. "Bull" Halsey...
...politician with an eye on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue had better keep the other eye cocked toward California, with its late (June 7), high-stakes (81 delegates to the Democratic National Convention, 70 to the Republican) presidential primaries and its 32 electoral votes. To no one is California more crucial than to Native Son Richard Nixon; if he cannot count on his home state, he will have a rough path to walk toward the White House. Just four months ago the Mervin Field poll, most widely circulated in the state, showed Nixon not only running well behind Massachusetts' John Kennedy...
...Derelict. Starting out, the salvagers swung by ropes from the high-riding forward deckhouse to the after superstructure, examined the derelict, decided to pump sea water from the ship's big tanks and replace it with enough compressed air to float the Queen. A diver went down, looked at the gaping holes in the starboard side; they ranged down as far as 46 ft. Lloyd Deir decided the team would need a prefabricated patch to cover the holes. It would have to be of three-eighths-inch steel, 20 ft. by 30 ft., weighing eleven tons. Deir...
This pronouncement at the high table of aggressive Communist revolution set Western diplomats to scratching their heads; though most of them found it heartening, some clung to the suspicion that it might be just another cynical appeal to the world's yearning for peace. But it was a measure of the degree to which Khrushchev had turned the world upside down in the last month that the West could even conceive of him as a shield and buckler against the belligerence of Mao Tse-tung's China...
...worker, whose weekly salary all goes for rent and pasta, the only hope for retirement is a pension -meager at best and by no means automatic. If he is privately employed, his fate is in the hands of a monstrous, Kafkaesque government bureau whose paper-shuffling overhead is so high that a man whose employer has paid in $15,000 on his behalf over a 30-year period will receive only $3,000 of it when he retires. The one Italian worker in eight who is a government employee fares somewhat better: provided he works nearly 20 years...