Word: inbound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hundreds of millions of its people? For 14 years, military men and scientists have labored mightily to devise some protection against such an eventuality. The principal result of their efforts is the Sentinel anti-ballistic-missile system, a complex of nuclear-tipped rockets and radars aimed at crippling inbound enemy warheads before they can hit their targets...
...nature of U.S. party politics, Buckley probably helped Lindsay win. He siphoned off many conservative Democratic votes that otherwise would have gone to Abe Beame; he scared many liberal Democrats into voting for Lindsay. In the campaign, however, he momentarily fascinated many liberals with some thoughtful proposals (a heavy inbound toll on Manhattan bridges and tunnels to reduce traffic into the city), some antic ones (building an overhead bikeway down Second Avenue so that New Yorkers could improve their muscle tone), and almost total political candor. Even that well-known liberal Groucho Marx said that if he were...
After a respite of much more than a minute, the teams returned to action in the Dartmouth backcourt. A long inbound pass was knocked out by Dressler, and the clock -- strangely enough -- still read two seconds. After another time out, Dartmouth passed in again -- this time from halfcourt, and Joe Colgan missed a desperation jump shot at the buzzer...
...Inbound flights were diverted to airports as far away as Cleveland and Bermuda. Philadelphia received 40 New York-bound airliners carrying some 4,500 passengers. Said William T. Burns, Philadelphia's assistant city commerce director for aviation: "It's incredible if they don't have something similar to our emergency lighting system." Incredible as it was, Kennedy Airport did not. It was shut down for eleven hours and 55 minutes...
...Square and Yard were splendiferous yesterday with the bright boaters of inbound members of the Class of 1940 as they began four days of 25th reunion festivities...