Word: hops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corp. plant. The day wore swiftly on, the miles slipped by. At Merrill's grocery in the Mormon crossroads of St. David (pop. 10), Goldwater paused for breakfast-a bottle of Coke-before hustling on to a campaign appearance in rural Pomerene (pop. 150). Then came an air hop over the Dragoon Mountains to Elfrida (pop. 300), near the Mexican border, another to lettuce-growing Willcox (pop. 1,500), where Goldwater changed shirts for a dinner with the Willcox Women's Republican Club. Not till 10 p.m., when a golden quarter-moon was sinking into the saguaro...
...plenty of problems. The best Japanese transistor radios compete on even terms with RCA's-and $4,300,000 worth of them poured into U.S. markets in 1958's first six months. The one trouble is that so many fly-by-night Japanese companies are trying to hop aboard the gravy train that the Japanese Trade Ministry has been forced to lay down a check price of $14.95 for exports, refuse licenses to firms that price below...
...farm boy happens upon them, leads them back to the burrow where he and his deserted mother (Cara Williams) live. The woman helps them smash the chain, spends the night with Joker Jackson, and persuades him to flee with her while Cullen heads overland to hop a northbound freight. In a scene that would be the worst sort of corn if the script faltered, Curtis learns that the woman has directed Poitier through a quicksand bog. Their painfully borne chain, even broken, has bound them irrevocably together, and Curtis plunges after him to sure capture by the law. Behind...
...where it expected to be, broke radio silence for the first time since leaving Hawaii to send off a three-word encrypted signal to the Navy that said something like: "Here we are!" Thirteen miles off Iceland a helicopter arrived out of nowhere, lifted Anderson off for a preplanned hop to Iceland's Keflavik Airfield, where a Navy plane was waiting to fly him to Washington. The helicopter lowered the crew's first outside-world tribute direct from the President of the U.S. It read: "Congratulations on a magnificent achievement. Well done...
...Europe"), upon which infantrymen, armed with shoulder-fired nuclear guns, will be deployed and supplied by airplane, supported by 1,500-mile missile batteries mobile enough to avoid destruction, provided with observation by robot planes and reconnaissance satellites, screened by "sky cavalry" of well-armed helicopters that can easily hop across any terrain...