Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before recommending the blast, the AECmen intend to study the rock under the coastline. Some kinds of rock absorb more neutrons than others and become more radioactive. The hardness of the rock is important too, because it controls to some extent the amount of nuclear energy that must be used to produce the desired effect...
...margin in the Senate by six to nine seats, would improve the present 233 to 198 in the House of Representatives by 30 to 50 seats. Eying 1960, states-rights-minded Southern Democrats got a special signal out of the Democratic prospects: if big Democratic years are ahead, they intend to fight for a veto power on the 1960 Democratic candidate. Republicans glumly talked of little more than cutting off their losses...
...says the National Association of Investment Companies, earns $6,542 a year, has mutual-fund holdings of $4,171, which he bought for retirement and protection against inflations. "The kind of people who buy mutual funds,'' says Edward B. Burr, executive vice president of One William Street, "intend to keep their shares ten, 20 years, or for life...
...Gaulle. Then, in a blunt speech reproaching De Gaulle for giving "new life and encouragement" to the insurrection, ex-Premier Pierre Mendes-France leveled his finger at Pflimlin and cried: "We call upon you to condemn openly those insurgent leaders in Algiers." Pflimlin weakly replied: "I do not intend to disassociate the army from the Republic...
...that it had solved the re-entry problem for ballistic missiles, but Aleksandr Nesmeyanov claimed the same thing for his own country back in 1956. The Russians set off the first lithium isotope H-bomb, plan an atom-powered airplane, have the largest fleet of floating oceanography laboratories, now intend to build the world's biggest (220 in.) telescope. Beneath such tangible accomplishments-the hardware showpieces of science-lies a vast network of pure and applied research that is as energetic as any to be found...