Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head off the seemingly inexhaustible dangers of world crisis. To the White House came the top diplomats, the military and intelligence chiefs, all bringing bits and pieces of a jigsaw puzzle of Soviet tanks churning westward through the bloody snows of satelliteland, of MIG-17s swooping southward past Mount Ararat to take up menacing new forward bases in Syria...
...French way of thinking-been a highly satisfactory one. The British, whose regard for the fighting qualities of "Gyppos" has never been high, saw little reason to change their estimates. Although the Egyptian air force, according to R.A.F. estimates, outnumbered available "allied" aircraft two to one. it managed to mount only two fighter sorties against the British and French during the entire campaign. Some of Nasser's 50 Soviet-built Ilyushin bombers-perhaps as many as half-were believed to have been flown off to Saudi Arabia and Syria before the Anglo-French air attacks began, but much...
...position as director of the Australian Commonwealth Observatory, on Mount Stromlo near Canberra, will enable to return to his original field of interest. Optical research on the Southern Milky Way has been his special interest since Harlow Shapley brought him to Harvard...
...Mount Stromlo Observatory has an excellent potential, but several of its instruments are not operative, and Bok calls it "an incomplete jig-saw puzzle, one that one feels should not be difficult to put right." Mount Stromlo uses optical, not radio telescopes, and while Bok will be cooperating with the Sydney Radiophysics Laboratory, he will generally be giving up his radio work, which, incidentally, has emphasized the co-ordination of optical and radio techniques for astrophysical research...
...more days Santa will turn from side to side and wave his arms. And then he will probably return to his cardboard igloo in the basement of the X-Mas Corporation Outlet on Massachusetts Avenue and Mount Auburn Street...