Word: meeker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year-old salesman, Richard Meeker. "I used him as a way to get out of the house," Mary confesses. "It was a pathetic reason to get married." Soon after the Meekers' son Richard was born, Mary landed her first dramatic television role. It was Happy Hotpoint all over again. As the velvet-voiced secretary on Richard Diamond, Mary was invisible, save for her hands and legs...
Last May, in an operation named Project Rio Blanco, the AEC exploded three 30-kiloton devices that had been placed about 450 ft. apart in a vertical tube more than a mile underground near the hamlet of Meeker in western Colorado. The goal was to crack the surrounding sandstone and create a huge cavern into which the escaping gas could seep. But when the AEC and its private-industry collaborator. CER Geonuclear Corp. of Las Vegas, began test drilling at the site after the explosions, they made an embarrassing discovery. The blasts had apparently created three separate gas-filled caverns...
With five minutes gone in the second half, veteran left wing Kathy Agoos pushed a shot past beleaguered Jackson goalie Ann Meeker to increase the lead...
...Wars took the life of W.H. Meeker '17, Crimson president, one of 15 Crimson editors who died in the trenches of France...
Tragically and ironically, one of the first casualties of the War was W. H. Meeker '17, during whose term as President the pressure for War had reached its peak. Meeker had given his life for his convictions, volunteering at the outbreak of hostilities to light for when he described as "the forces of democracy." His sad and early death was one of 15 fatalities sustained by The Crimson in the trenches of France and his name was commemorated by the dedication of a library in his honor, unveiled in the Sanctum in the Spring...