Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...class room work. Classes in subjects such as mine warfare, CBR (chemical, biological, and radiological) warfare, and first aid, for instance, are important and potentially interesting, but were often lost on the men. Simple improvements in teaching techniques, taking advantage of the RFA's aptitudes, could save hours and interest...
...fled to West Berlin? To save his skin, for he feared that his superiors were going to "fry" him because one of his aides had been discovered to be a double agent, and also because a relative had recently decamped to West Germany. "I spent eight years in Nazi concentration camps," said Dombrowski candidly. "I did not want another dose...
...Dominique he left an estate of 6 billion francs (then $375 million), which was promptly contested by his relatives. Under French law a widow ordinarily has the use of her husband's fortune while she is alive but cannot bequeath it to anyone save a direct heir. The Guillaumes had been childless in nine years of marriage; yet now the rumor spread that, surprisingly, the beautiful Madame Guillaume was pregnant. Ten months later a baby boy appeared in her household. In 1941 she formally adopted the child, named him Jean-Pierre Guillaume, though he was often called Paulo...
...asking an extension, McElroy hoped to head off arguments that the U.S. could save $28 million a year in draft board administration costs and still keep the services sufficiently strong through volunteer enlistments. In fact, although the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard do not need draftees to maintain their force levels, the Army does: at a current draft rate of 9,000 men a month, 28% of the Army's 804,000-man enlisted personnel is drafted. More important, as McElroy pointed out, the omnipresent threat of selective service "stimulates" young men to volunteer...
...selective breeding that wheat could be developed sturdy enough to grow profitably in all of Russia's diverse climates and soils. So powerful was Lysenko that not even Nikolai's brother, a leading member of the mighty Academy of Sciences itself (and later its president), could save Nikolai Vavilov, who died in a Siberian concentration camp...