Word: occur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remedies worked. Knowing that glitches were bound to occur in the 83,000 different Surveyor components (34,000 in the Doppler and descent radar alone), scientists considered the first four craft as "engineering models," and would have been delighted if only one of them had made a successful soft landing. Thus no one was more surprised than the JPL and Hughes crews when the first Surveyor not only made a perfect landing and transmitted back thousands of pictures of the lunar surface but also proved so durable that it came back to life after each of two lunar nights, having...
...legal tender, a smart crook knows that he is usually safer stealing or forging them than he is stealing or forging the real thing. In many states, lifting a credit card amounts to nothing more than lifting a penny's worth of plastic: serious crime may occur only when the issuing company is actually defrauded. The situation is much the same with traveler's checks. As a result, a man found in possession of a stolen or forged card or check may not be guilty of a serious crime unless police can prove that he personally has misused...
...same few that the rate of rejection is 20 to 1 at some schools and 9 to 1 nationwide. Beginning in kindergarten, much of lower schooling aims at the exams. Preparing for them and taking them is such a traumatic ordeal that thousands of suicides and nervous breakdowns occur every year. Next spring some 510,000 high school graduates will compete not only against one another for 370,000 openings, but also against 200,000 rōnin†-students who failed the tests and have been cramming for months to try again...
...OSPAAAL is the doctrine that nascent revolutionary movements in Latin America must coordinate their efforts, that the revolution in Latin America must come on a continental scale, rather than on a local, nationalist scale, for, he argues, American imperialism will be able to crush uprisings only if they occur one at a time, in one country at a time...
Should this occur, the United States would find itself facing guerrilla problems spreading out from the original focal point in Bolivia, and would be forced to send special forces adviors to aid these governments in suppressing the rebellions--as it now has done in Bolivia...