Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Intellect Gap. Graduate-school enrollment is expected to dip 25% to 50% or more, confronting some smaller schools with the very real threat of financial ruin. Most universities, depending heavily on graduate students to teach lower-level undergraduate courses, will have a hard time finding enough qualified people to stand behind their lecterns. More important, as many thousands of the nation's brightest young men enter the Army rather than graduate school, there will be a gap of at least two years in the development of much-needed skills and intellect. The new regulations, said Harvard President
...cocky. From the Mediterranean to the Sea of Japan, Soviet destroyers and trawlers boldly maneuver into the midst of formations of U.S. ships. Frequently, the intruders suddenly cut across the bow of an American ship to test the skill and technique of the helmsmen. The Russians also try to ruin maneuvers between the U.S. and its allies. In the Sea of Japan last year, Soviet warships scraped the U.S. destroyer Walker twice in an obvious attempt to break up a joint antisub exercise between U.S. and Japanese fleets. "Seafaring nations for centuries have allowed ships to proceed peacefully...
...length or first-person narration doesn't ruin an Avatar article, lack of direction will. For example, just when we expect John Wilton (in "Avatar a Newspaper at Last") to define the paper's objects, he wanders off to explain why he got a haircut...
...aftermath of World War II, the international casualty list read like a global roll call. Europe was an economic ruin; Russia was still reeling; Japan was shattered; China and Southeast Asia were torn by revolution. By comparison, the U.S. seemed a privileged party indeed. It boasted 40% of the world's income and a burgeoning economy. It was as rich as ever in natural resources, its population was growing, and it had an enormous output of food. It also had incredible military muscle; it possessed the world's only nuclear weapons...
...given him no reason for his failure to pass the physical. Shetterly said that after he refused to sign the oath U.S. Army Intelligence officials finger-printed him and questioned him for four hours. The officials threatened to investigate him, he said, and warned him that an investigation would ruin his career prospects in this country...