Word: mare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trusted in Harvard Houses, they can be trusted anywhere. Objections to the proposal for moral reasons can be dismissed on the grounds that morals cannot be legislated now that sign-outs are here. On the same principle it is unwise to lock the barn door once the mare has fled...
...layers where sharp changes of temperature would foul enemy sonar; they practiced with the Navy's new, very low-frequency radio gear with which they could receive messages from 6,000 miles away without resurfacing. They became adept at using Polaris' SINS (Ships Inertial Navigation System), the mare's nest of gyros and electronic equipment that locates George Washington on a precise spot on the globe so that she can dial infinitely accurate directions into her missiles. There were star-tracking periscopes and radiometric sextants for checking on the SINS; there was secret optical alignment gear...
...Plane & by Foot. Early this year, the Manhattan doctors started treating 24 Africans from remote parts of Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika. Most of the patients traveled to Nairobi and Kampala, some by hospital plane, others by ambulance or on shanks' mare, barefoot. They represented more than a dozen tribes; some spoke languages so obscure that a series of three interpreters was needed. More than half the patients had cancer of some kind in the head, but seven had cancer of the cervix, one of the greatest killers of African women...
...Derby choice. At Keeneland's Blue Grass Stakes last week, Tompion ran away from three other hopefuls, won his fourth straight major-stakes victory to push his earnings to $315,000. Tompion's bloodlines-by Tom Fool out of Sunlight, a Count Fleet mare-cannot be improved upon. Tom Fool was recently voted the outstanding horse of the 1950s, has already sired one Derby winner, Calumet Farm's Tim Tarn (1958). For C. V. Whitney, a Derby victory would be a long time in the making; in ten Derbys, he has entered 13 horses, never been...
...yard of their home at Pound Ridge, N.Y. It seemed strange to see such a family group gathered anywhere but before a television set. To Poet-Playwright Archibald (J.B.) MacLeish, 67, it was quite natural; he was reading from the works of his late fellow poet, Walter de la Mare, just as MacLeish had read poetry to his own children years...