Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family's travels took him through ten different schools. Although he was never a top scholar, Teddy managed to follow his three brothers to Harvard. As a freshman, he was struggling along with a C minus in Spanish when, on the spur of the moment, he asked a classmate to take an exam for him. The friend was caught, and they were both suspended. This year, to forestall the possibility that his expulsion might be used against him politically, Teddy made a public confession of the incident. During the campaign. Opponent McCormack never mentioned...
...first command-"Roll minus 9.33 degrees"-sped across space from the great dish antenna at Goldstone. After an agonizing wait for radio travel time, Mariner II acknowledged the command and repeated it accurately. For more than an hour the long-distance conversation continued, carried on in a language of carefully spaced pulses of radio energy. At Goldstone these pulses appeared as mere dots on a slowly moving tape. But each combi nation of dots represented numbers in the two-digit binary code that computers understand best. Finally, Goldstone sent "Signal RTC-6," which told Mariner II to execute...
...natural phenomena. "A ghost, ghoul, or uncanny sound," he writes, "is far more likely to be thought projection from one of your fellow men, still living on earth, than it is to be a broadcast from the outside." In other words, a ghost is simply a television picture, minus the sound, which is transmitted from one person to another...
Jack Kennedy has found an asset to America in Academic Economist Heller: 8 billion more in debt (temporarily, of course), gold reserves still declining, and the market down 150 points. With such an impressively "minus" record, I can hardly wait for the new tax reforms...
...sampling of other honors, minus those that, though indubitably deserved, are clearly expectable...