Word: puget
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people called upon the scientists. The scientists tried filching the gooneys' eggs. The birds wailed like banshees at the egg snatchers, then promptly laid some more. In desperation, the Navy packed some gooneys into planes, hauled them to far-off Guam, to Kwajalein, to northern Japan, even to Puget Sound-4,000 miles away. Unerringly, the gooneys, thoughtfully marked with a shocking-pink head dye for identincation, flew back to Midway. And the Navy learned that nothing smells up a plane more pungently than a load of airsick gooneys...
...Loss. In Seattle, 15 biologists of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staged their annual salmon-fishing derby in Puget Sound, checked in after 5½ hours with one small salmon, a cod and a dwarfish red snapper, explained lamely: "We're trying to preserve the salmon...
...spiritual side of driving a car came in for intensive study in Seattle last week at the first of what the National Safety Council hopes will be a nationwide series of "moral-emphasis safety workshops." Some 250 laymen and clergymen from the Puget Sound area-including Protestants, Roman Catholics, Greek Orthodox, Jews and Buddhists-met to discuss ways and means of awakening the conscience of the man behind the wheel...
...dock and airstrip building near Anchorage, road surveys and right-of-way proceedings along the Alaska Railroad, and talk of a $58 million contract awarded the Drake-Puget Sound Construction Co. for a job near Mount McKinley National Park add up to one thing to Alaskans: preparation for a string of U.S. ballistic missile bases. Sited along the Alaska Railroad, such bases could launch intermediate-range missiles that would reach Russian bases on the eastern tip of Siberia, intercontinental missiles that could arc across the Pole to Moscow and beyond. The U.S. bases would have the advantage of North America...
...year." Each pupil proceeds at his own pace, whether doing work normal for his age or work one or two years in advance. But the McCormicks have added some special features. All children take, judo and ballet lessons to develop muscular control. They have visited the College of Puget Sound to hear a lecture on satellites, each Tuesday afternoon play host to a foreign student from the college who tells them about his country. At four, the children begin conversational Spanish, at six French, at eight German...