Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critical aspects of the world situation have raised the Democratic convention stocks of Johnson and Stevenson. They also have given Senator Symington a better opportunity to exploit his pioneer criticisms of the Eisenhower military defense programs. They tend to accent unfavorably Senator Kennedy's youth and administrative inexperience. Nixon will be hurt in the campaign by his obligatory defense of Executive handling of the U-2 episode, but Khrushchev's attacks will make his nomination even more certain and help his electoral prospect...
Half a century after she had the audacity to pioneer a 'bove-knee-length, one-piece bathing suit, Australian-born Mermaid Annette Kellerman, 73, now a Los Angeles matron, returned to her homeland, cast a knowing eye on the bikini-teeming Gold Coast beaches south of Brisbane, observed: "A bikini is very nice on a very young girl. But, my dear, those spare tires and that view as they walk away from...
...been in jail, and I'm willing to go back if necessary." The Rev. Thomas Carlisle, pastor of Watertown's Stone Street Presbyterian Church, read a petition, signed by 14 local ministers and a rabbi, urging Woolworth, which got its start in Watertown, to "pioneer" better racial relations in the South...
...California lab told Jodrell Bank to give the final commands; then it listened to the proceedings over an open-voice channel. At intervals of one minute, not long enough to get a response from 8,000,000 miles away. Jodrell sent orders speeding into space. First it told Pioneer V to switch half-power current through the filaments of the 150-watt transmitter. Then it called for full-power current. Then it gave the payoff order: to turn on the high plate voltage that would actually start the big transmitter. Eighty-six seconds after the final command left the earth...
...first deaf to the noises of rebellion. Like everyone else, he made his bland clay models and sent them off to be cast at a foundry. Then one night he went to his studio and smashed every model in the place. From that moment on, he became a pioneer in reviving the nearly forgotten art of carving wood and chipping stone...