Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into radio (as a sounding board to blast the United Rubber Workers) and rocketry (after a son was lost when a World War II rescue plane was unable to take off). Although his battle to acquire "enough diversification so that my sons [four surviving] wouldn't have to scrap with each other" eventually made him the producer of everything from badminton birds to wrought iron. O'Neil kept tabs on the bosses of his 46 far-flung subsidiaries and affiliates with the frequent query, "Why the hell aren't you fellows making more money?" Last year...
Something for Nothing. Though every new scrap of evidence indicts Stalin as the villain of Potsdam, a share of blame seems to fall on a U.S. that, bent on victory, was too single-minded to set realistic conditions for Japan's surrender. In hindsight, acceptance of such conditions might have ended the war, buttressed Asia against the newly strengthened Communists and relieved the U.S. of the onus of having dropped the first atomic bombs-which the Communists have used as a powerful anti-U.S. propaganda point...
...said to have observed: "We are faced with the question of whether we want a loose woman reigning over us or a fallen woman in our midst." The 1938 hurricane demonstrated that the fall was imminent, and the bronze Genius was taken down to be melted into wartime scrap in 1942. In her place today stands a lonely lightning...
...combined. In 1918, before the sun commenced to set on British seapower, the Royal Navy boasted 50 battleships. Last week, without ceremony, the navy sailed the last of Her Majesty's battleships, the 44,500 ton Vanguard, from Portsmouth up to the Clyde to be broken up for scrap...
...understand here it is where human progress is achieved. Those that march in the gutter, in the extremes of the right and the left, in the long run are always defeated." He also reminded his fellow Republicans that he was not yet to be relegated to history's scrap heap. Said he meaningfully, "I am still President of the United States for six months...