Word: recoverer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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By the war's end, the Communists had a poorly armed though well-trained and disciplined army of 1 million, recruited largely from the peasantry. The Nationalists, with 3 million combat troops and ready access to U.S. ships and aircraft, easily won the postwar race to reoccupy the one...
A Chicago businessman charters a plane to fly over Texas ranch land while he scans the ground through binoculars, looking for valuable samples. A Fort Scott, Kans., man fights off hissing rattlesnakes on his farm to recover a small piece. A tourist from Camdenton, Mo., wanders through a live minefield...
Douglas' condition and pace have associates worried. Federal judges are appointed for life. When their performance hinders the court's work but they put off quitting, as did Justice Stephen Field in 1897 at the age of 81, the court quietly asks a colleague to suggest resignation. In...
Irksome Dilemma. The huge shortfall was aggravated by the global recession, which slowed the growth of world trade. Some economists argue that the numbers are no cause for alarm contending that the U.S. will attract more foreign capital when its economy perks up. Nonetheless, the nagging, $10-per-bbl. question...
Apparently, the news organizations that agreed to delay the story--which included Time, Newsweek, CBS and NBC--took Colby's word that the operation was important. There is no evidence that any organization tried carefully to establish, on its own, exactly why the CIA needed to recover the codes and...