Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was nothing secret about most of this stuff, Gold explained. The Russians could have found many of the designs and drawings in textbooks or technical manuals, or could even have bought them from U.S. firms. But they had gone through "sad experiences" with some of the plans they had bought, said Gold. American companies had a way of "sabotaging" the blueprints by hiding defects; when the Russians started building to specification, things were always going wrong. Stolen plans worked better...
...opinion may be unpopular," wrote Columnist-Senator Margaret Chase Smith, "but I am very tired of seeing car after car with slain deer strapped to the fenders and hoods ... I don't see how a hunter can level his gun against the sad eyes of a deer and shoot to kill. What sport is there in this...
...millions of U.S. parents who don't own TV sets were whipsawed last week by full-page ads in 1,100 newspapers and sudsy commercials pouring from 250 radio stations. The American Television Dealers and Manufacturers Association was spending $2,000,000 to feature the sad plight of a winsome, pigtailed little girl blubbering on the shoulder of her pouting, sad-eyed brother. Warned the A.T.D.M.: "There are some things a son or daughter won't tell you ... Do you expect him to blurt out the truth-that he's really ashamed to be with the gang...
Western Union reported an unusual number of sad telegrams and the winds made it tough on the "hot roasted peanuts." The early season small bottle was replaced by the larger size as liquor sales gurgled ahead. It was, as one local merchant put it, "a fairly rewarding...
...program died out during the war, since the freshmen were living in the Houses and taking part in regular House athletics. Postwar revival was slow. An eight-team league consisting of the Holworthy Vets, the Straus Sad Sacks, the Stoughton Raiders, the Wigglesworth Wonders, the Welders, the Gashousers, and Thayer Hall, all drew less than 100 players during...