Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rivercraft and rescue squads quickly swept.the scene for survivors, picking up at least eight, along with five bodies. Divers spotted three more corpses in a car but were unable to recover any of the victims pinned in the submerged scrap heap. It will take weeks of work to cut them all free. Some cars were doubtless swept downstream, and police estimated that it would be a long time-if ever-until a full count could be made of the victims. Mean while, Ohio Governor James Rhodes and his West Virginia counterpart, Hulett Carlson Smith, were pressing for an investigation...
...shortage of helicopters is easily detected and quickly cured. But the ultimate effects of McNamara's decisions to scrap projects such as the Air Force's Dyna-soar spacecraft and to phase out long-range heavy bombers, will not be fully measurable for years. McNamara has been spending $7 billion a year for research and development, far more than had been allocated previously; yet he is accused of killing more projects than he carries out. Ten years hence, the nuclear aircraft engine, which he abandoned, may prove to be a vital necessity...
...Faculty to scrap the requirement. Another possibility is a recommendation to retain the requirement but direct the Administrative Board to be liberal in granting exemptions...
This line of attack on the History Department is not a new one. In the spring of 1966, 12 junior faculty members proposed major revisions in the tutorial program that would have shifted the program to a sharper focus on substantive historical questions. The tutors wanted to scrap the traditional sophomore tutorial (a survey of great historians from Herodotus on) and substitute a twoyear sequence in the student's particular field of interest. They also suggested that the department offer small conference courses on a carefully delineated historical problem as an alternative to the senior thesis...
Dartmouth tried an on-sides kick after the touchdown and almost got away with it before Bob Brooks won the scrap for the ball. With less than a minute left, Gatto scrambled for a first down at the Dartmouth 43. Zimmerman began to throw, but he missed three times. On the fourth, he was hit while passing and Dartmouth recovered the fumble. Time ran out before the Green could start another threat...