Word: sac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this year's competition: Which would show up better, the reliable old B-36 (introduced in 1946), now on its way out as a combat weapon, or the flashier, faster (upwards of 600 m.p.h.) B-47? Last year the B-36 scored higher. This time the top SAC strategists staked their hopes and reputations...
...went on. Across half the world, Islam reverberated with sympathy and alarm. Seventeen Arab and Asian nations asked the U.N. to intervene. In Karachi, 5,000 Moslems burst through police lines and burned an effigy of "French Colonialism." The U.S., with some 20,000 Americans stationed at the four SAC air bases in Morocco, maneuvered to keep from being involved. Anxious to support the cause of Arab freedom, yet loth to antagonize NATO Partner France, Washington only expressed concern and asked the French government not to use U.S. equipment in its African colonies...
Compared with other more complex organs, the bladder has a relatively simple structure and function. It is a remarkably elastic, muscular sac lying in the pelvic cavity. It receives urine from the kidneys through two slender tubes called ureters, expands to pint or even quart size as it stores urine, then contracts and discharges it from the body through a third tube called a urethra. People with no bladders, or with diseased bladders, usually live in great discomfort and with considerable danger of serious kidney infection...
...reputation as a staff idea man during World War II. When General LeMay took command of the Strategic Air Command he sought the brightest young officers in the Air Force. One of the first he picked was Montgomery, who became Director of Operations for the crucial years of SAC training and growth from 1949 to 1953, when he took over his last command...
...statistics, has been Jimmy's wife before (in The Stratton Story and The Glenn Miller Story), and by now she can play the part in her sleep. Sometimes, in fact, she seems to do so. Frank Lovejoy, who plays General Curtis E. LeMay. the tough boss of SAC, does an excellent imitation of that famous cigargoyle...