Word: put
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Burney put the finger on cigarette smoking as carrying the greatest risk. And he said filter tips developed so far do not do a good enough job of straining out tars...
...John Lindsay, head of NASA's solar physics program, reported the space agency has a duplicate moon satellite but no rocket to put...
...failure was a bitter disappointment to missilemen who hoped to put the United States back into the space race with Russia. It probably means that the Russians will hold their long lead in space exploration for at least another year...
...French insistence on the atom bomb is, of course, based partly on considerations of prestige and of grandeur, but perhaps we can discern more mundane military reasoning involved. Once the French have put their name on the label, I surmise that de Gaulle will quietly "Europeanize" the bomb project, and bring in German technicians. The object of these efforts would be to increase the Continent's nuclear power to the point where it could annihilate the U.S.S.R. Then the block would have won its freedom both from fear of Russia, and from dependence on the United States for protection...
...consultants got the estimates of scientists and technicians on how long each step should take, fed the predictions into a computer, got back success-probability curves. If the machine said a certain component had only a 10% chance of being ready on time, the Navy knew it had to put more money and men behind it or find a different way to do the job. In such cases the Navy could consult the computer to find out which of a score or more shortcuts around the obstacle was the best...