Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stroke the Pentagon ordered the closing, consolidation or cutting back of yet another 149 bases,* and disclosed a "realignment" of strategic forces that will scrap about two-thirds of the present big bomber fleet by 1971. All of the 80 supersonic B58 Hustlers will go. Some 350 older-model B-52 Stratofortresses will also be phased out, leaving the Strategic Air Command with only 255 of its lumbering eight-engined giants. By then, the U.S. arsenal of land-and sea-based long-range nuclear missiles will have grown from...
...Painted Mess. Walking somewhere between the embattled geniuses, Sportswear Designer John Weitz has no doubt that he is in a scrap. There are, he admits, two good fashion photographers: Irving Penn and Richard Avedon. "Most of the others want to be photography's Andy Warhol. They exult in taking photographs with clothes that can't be seen, and a beautiful girl ends up looking like a painted mess...
...Princeton Tigers, with a scrap-book of national press clippings and a shelf already dusted off for the Lambert Trophy, were stunned Saturday by Dartmouth...
...said, "we give billions for a dubious defense and billions more for the moon but almost nothing for the world we have now, which is the only one we have, isn't' it? Of course a lot of disturbing things happen with foreign aid, but you don't scrap a whole program when one rocket blows...
...first came calling when she was 17 until the moment, 40 years later, when they departed the still unfinished White House. As fictional biographies go, this is a competent job. But both John and Abigail Adams had a compulsion to put words on paper and then saved every scrap. Discriminating readers will find that the numerous volumes of their letters and diaries give a far better picture of their times and their relationship...