Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians have a military air fleet of between 18,000 and 20,000 planes, mostly jets. Their bombing force-about equal in number to that of the U.S. Strategic Air Command-consists of about 1,500 jets and turboprops. Most of this force is shortrange, but the U.S.S.R. has developed inflight refueling techniques that provide enough range to make round-trip missions to the U.S. And though their Bison and Badger bombers are inferior to the U.S.'s B-47s and B-52s (and Russian airplane maintenance and crew-training are low grade), the criterion of a good bomber...
...inclination to compete, 3) persistent desire for recognition and advancement, 4) continuous involvement in multiple and diverse functions subject to time restrictions (i.e., deadlines), 5) habitual compulsion to speed up all their physical and mental functions, and 6) superior mental and physical alertness. For comparison they took an equal number of men of the same ages and physical types, but with the opposite personality type-little drive or desire to compete...
...highly competent while the acting ranges from adequate down. The only exception to the latter stricture is Miyoshi Umeki, the heroine who is exceedingly good at looking demure. One might even go so far as to call her charming. Pat Suzuki as her brassy rival has an absolutely A-number-1 smile, and a pretty good figure too. Her singing will be fun when she learns how much volume she needs to fill the house. Ed Kenney plays the handsome hero with whom half of Chinatown is in love; he sings okay...
Defending the regulations, Von Stade declared that they "have stopped a good number of students from getting into serious academic trouble...
Both Dawson and Fr. Porras concurred on the likelihood that the new Pope would soon begin to fill the vacancies among Cardinal seats. They believe one of his first tasks will be to restore the number of Cardinals, now 53, to the maximum desired amount...