Word: objectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Torreón control tower's searchlight picked up Flight 202 coming back, one of its operators spotted a dark object clinging to the horizontal stabilizer on the right of the plane's rudder. When Guzman brought the ship in, the object slid off and ran right into the ground crew's arms. It was Cliserio Reyes...
...object of the new regulations was to cut new housing construction from the current rate of 1,400,000 units a year to 800,000. But builders cried that the cut would be much greater. Said Long Island's Builder William J. Levitt: "We'll be lucky to have a half million housing units built in 1951." Some other builders thought it would...
...parlour game is sweeping England ... It is called "Monotony" and is appropriate to our times. It appears to be based on Monopoly, a game [in] which . . . each player's object was to acquire the private ownership of . . . house property, and so forth. In Monotony the aim is to nationalise everything...
Next morning the new parliament convened and with almost unanimous voice appointed meddlesome Henry Head a constable of Sark-a gesture of pure revenge, since Sark's two constables are unpaid and may not resign or refuse their jobs under severe penalty of law. Said Henry Head: "I object...
...upper atmosphere by cosmic rays. AH carbon in living things contains a tiny amount of it, but after the death of an organism, its carbon 14 gradually disintegrates; half of it disappears in about 5,800 years. The amount that has disappeared is a reasonably accurate measure of the object...