Word: intact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congressional battle of the budget, not one of the points recommended by the Administration was accepted intact. Total aid was cut from 4.3 billion to 3.4 billion. The proposed loan fund of 2 billion over a three year period received only 300 million this year with no guarantee of any future addition. As a result, the ICA's long range development plans were crippled. Congress thus displayed disregard for the advice of the Fairless and Johnston committees which urged the importance of giving the ICA greater leeway in terms of time limits for aid programs, and in regard to giving...
Last year's Crimson halfback line is intact, with Jon Felstiner at left half, Tony Oberschall at center, and Marshall Schwarz at right half. Munro also developed a good halfback reserve, smoothing out one of last season's rough spots...
Despite outbreaks of violence and destruction, the major achievement of the day was left intact: nine Negroes spent a full day in Central High School...
...destruction of the historic monastery (founded A.D. 529) that crowned Monte Cassino than for the men who fought and died there. Author Majdalany concedes that there were probably no German troops within the monastery precincts, and that militarily the buildings were nearly as strong in ruins as they were intact, could serve equally well as an observation post. But he still feels that the bombing had to be done, if only because "in the cold desolation of winter and the fatiguing travail of unresolved battle, the spell of its monstrous eminence was complete and haunting . . . To the soldiers dying...
...reported that it had scored a major research breakthrough. A Redstone-built, rocket-powered Jupiter "C" test vehicle, fired 400 miles into the ionosphere from its launching site at Cape Canaveral. Fla.. reached a top speed of 12,000 m.p.h., dropped into the Atlantic with its nose cone intact, despite the destructive 20,000° friction heat generated on its "reentry" into the earth's atmosphere. Thus the Army laid claim to being the first to solve the fantastically complicated "reentry problem" (and also exulted in the fact that the test Jupiter "C" landed 1,200 miles from...