Word: naming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Please, let's keep our records straight, and taint not my name. John Sack, author of Report from Practically Nowhere and my son, is 28 as of now, not 30 as you said [March 16]. I was married 30 years ago this month. What will my friends say? TRACY L. SACK
...Gustavo Adolfo de Maldonado Medina, as a Bolivian and representing the soul of my people, ask satisfaction on the field of honor from the man responsible for your article [March 2], and name, as the situation demands, my seconds, who shall be Fernando San Martin and Colonel Gustavo Maldonado San Martin...
...story (see PRESS) that the missile ship had fired three nuclear-armed rockets 300 miles into space in what one enthusiast called "the greatest scientific experiment ever conducted." If it was not quite that, it was certainly one of history's most spectacular scientific experiments. Its name: Project Argus. The glowing accounts of the scientific results (see SCIENCE) missed the point that Project Argus was also the most spectacular nuclear-missile-launching project in the history of a U.S. Navy that anchors its future in mobile, missile-launching sea power...
...gold bars were still shiny. After routine duty in the coast artillery in the U.S. and the Philippines, he taught philosophy at West Point in 1934, went on to Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, graduating in 1936. Scholarly, warm, modest, he quickly earned a name for getting things done, and in May 1941 Major Lemnitzer was assigned to the War Department's War Plans Division. He was a brigadier general in September 1942, when he joined General Dwight Eisenhower as assistant chief of staff in charge of planning Operation Torch, the North African invasion...
...Minister Iain Macleod was able to announce a drop in unemployment of 58,-ooo-the biggest decrease in any one month in twelve years. Said he: "The first seven years in opposition are always the most difficult. I cannot help it if every time the Opposition are asked to name their weapons, they pick boomerangs...