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Word: rapides (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reservists were called to active duty last January, after North Korea seized U.S.S. Pueblo, their ranks included some professional attorneys. And as the Pueblo crisis dwindled, the reservists' discontent rose. After the Pentagon began shipping some of them off to Viet Nam, the brass was peppered with a rapid fire of writs from soldiers who would rather sue than fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: They'd Rather Sue Than Fight | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...Soviets are proceeding "without letup" while the U.S. effort will have shrunk by mid-1969 to half what it was in the middle 1960s. As a result, Webb predicted, the Russians "will be flying more flights and developing a capability in space at a much more rapid rate than we will for the next several years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Russia's Race to the Moon | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

Others worry that the rapid growth of house courses is putting pressure on every house to come up with a full roster like Winthrop's, that the pressure may lead some Masters to recruit volunteers, and in the long run, might make willingness to teach house courses a criterion for hiring resident tutors...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: House Courses in Peril | 9/25/1968 | See Source »

...dismissing the Town of Milton's suit to block the extension of MBTA rapid transit lines from Ashmont to Mattapan, Judge Frank W. Tomasello apparently ended a four-year delay in construction of the library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kennedy Library Passes Another Legal Obstacle | 9/24/1968 | See Source »

...latest solution proposed extension of the present Harvard-Ashmont rapid transit line to Mattapan and construction of the yards there. But the Town of Milton, through which the new line would travel, objected and filed the suit that was overturned yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kennedy Library Passes Another Legal Obstacle | 9/24/1968 | See Source »

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