Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force personnel boss, disagreed with the Senator. "Stewart has made a great contribution to the Air Force," he said. "We don't think we should promote people to general officer [merely] on the basis of a good attendance record." But Senator Smith was far from satisfied. As she saw it, Stewart's promotion was clearly a case of rewarding not the colonel but the glamorous male lead in Strategic Air Command. She grimly put her foot down, and out of senatorial courtesy the Senate committee passed over Colonel James Stewart, U.S.A.F.R. Vacationing in Nevada after a two-week...
Thereafter Hourani allied himself with whoever was in power, astutely broke with them just in time. On the side, he worked at building up his own new Socialist-Baath Party. Three years ago Hourani helped put the skids under then President-Dictator Adid Shishekly, saw his Baathists win 16 seats in Parliament and became fast friends with Moscow-trained Khaled Bakdash, self-styled secretary-general of the Communist Party and the first admitted Communist ever elected to an Arab Parliament (in most Arab countries the Communist Party is outlawed). Hourani and Bakdash speedily recruited Syrian Intelligence Chief Colonel Abdel Hamid...
...Simons saw thunderclouds (cumulonimbus) approaching 68,000 ft., some 25,000 ft. higher than meteorologists had been able to trace them before at his latitude...
While the market's erratic performance turned many Wall Streeters bearish, few experts cried doom. Instead, they saw the downtrend as an orderly retreat from early summer's unwarranted high level, which brought the market within a point of the alltime 521.05 peak set last year. The selling waves were generally light-average daily volume was less than 2,000,000 shares-a sign that investors are not discouraged and intend to wait out the slump. Most big institutional investors appeared to be switching to other stocks instead of leaving the market altogether; there was no sudden rise...
...eleven games from Texas to Kentucky. Now they faced the Little League World Series, and they were scheduled to start against some sturdy youngsters from Bridgeport, Conn, at 2:30 p.m. Coach César Faz studied his skinny, undersized squad (averaging 4 ft. 11 in., 92 lbs.), saw all the signs of fatigue and made a reasonable request. "That's when my boys usually take a siesta," he said. "Can't they play in the second game...