Word: mex
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COUNTY WITH THE MOST-EDUCATED ADULT POPULATION: Los Alamos, N. Mex., the atomic research center, where the average adult has 12.9 years of schooling...
...utter frauds in arts and letters, drawing them all to her pre-World War I salons in Florence and New York, in turn becoming involved in three tormented marriages, countless love affairs, desperate attempts at psychoanalysis, and a dozen mystical philosophies; after a long illness; in Taos, N. Mex. Once described as a "species of headhunter" by Malcolm Cowley, she brought the likes of Lincoln Steffens, John Reed, Isadora Duncan, Gertrude Stein and Walter Lippmann together for discussions of Marx, Freud, birth control and anarchy, until tiring of city high life, she moved to Taos in 1917, proclaiming "Holy! Holy...
Steak & Hymns. Last week the 22nd annual Montosa Camp Meeting was in full swing in Socorro County, N. Mex., the fourth in a series of revival sessions held each summer along a circuit that includes the cow counties of west Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. There were two ministers to conduct services four or five times each day in the big, steel-sided tabernacle, and Bible lessons for the children. Days began with Scripture readings and ended with the singing of hymns. Nights, the men and women swapped stories around campfires before bedding down in trailers or in tents...
...White Sands Missile Range, N. Mex., where swarms of smaller missiles are tested over solid land, recovery teams are kept consistently busy. Nearly every fragment of returning missiles is searched for and found. The wreckage dug out of alkali flats or mesquite thickets often tells more about a flight than any amount of telemetry could radio back to base. For this reason White Sands testing is preferred for correcting tough cases of missile misbehavior...
JULY 16, 1945-World's first atomic explosion, by U.S., at Alamogordo, N. Mex...