Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...survived the blast might have had only a few days to live because of radiation disease. Best evidence: a goat on the bull's-eye Nevada, which looked healthy enough when the ship was first boarded, died within two days when its white-corpuscle count went down to zero...
...dotted lagoon, Dave's Dream made a dry run into the northeast wind. Bombardier Major Harold H. Wood-known to his crewmates as "Lemon Bar" because of his success at officers'-club slot machines-twirled the knobs on his bombsight, tried to line up the target ship Nevada with the cross hairs of his eyepiece. Topside, the Nevada had been painted a livid orange, striped with white. She wore her campaign ribbons painted on big boards-among them the Purple Heart with two stars (one hit at Pearl Harbor, two at Okinawa...
...Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, will take off from Kwajalein, 250 miles from Bikini. As it makes three trial runs over the orange-colored U.S.S. Nevada, takes readings of wind drift and adjusts the bomb sights, a loudspeaker will alert the whole area. Ten or more miles from the target, the operational ships will keep up steam in case the wind shifts. Aboard, some 40,000 men will lie down on the decks with their feet toward the blast and their eyes covered against blinding...
Getting specific, he said that Republicans would shove out incumbent Democrats in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Maryland, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Washington, Missouri, Wyoming and Montana (which would mean unhorsing such tough, old Democratic mules as Burt Wheeler, Joe O'Mahoney, Dave Walsh...
They offered the University of Nevada 27 four-year scholarships, each paying $1,000 a year. By the time the plan gets rolling, it will cost the Smiths $108,000 a year, and up to one-tenth of the student body will be going to school on gambling profits. Says Harold: "There are a lot of good minds hidden away in the little mining camps and ranches. Given a chance and the right education, some of them may do a lot for the state some day. You don't know what college means unless you miss it yourself...