Word: section
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DuBridge's logical, down-to-earth views in your March 31 Science section will, I hope, enable Sputnik-frenzied Americans to return safely to reality. The several billions required to finance a wasteful moon voyage could be expended more profitably for cancer research...
...Sodality's feasting debts stayed down during Prohibition, because, according to the minutes, they conscientiously drank ginger ale. The use of 100 proof ether instead of wine during the baptismal section of initiation also held the bills down, and knocked the neophytes...
...last month won only 31 out of 80 Municipal Corporation seats. Three weeks ago in Calcutta, Siddhartha Ray, a bright young Congress Party minister in the West Bengal state government, resigned office with the angry charge that "the people who control the West Bengal Congress today [are] an unscrupulous section of rich industrialists, traders and businessmen-the privileged class of modern India...
...stadium that when the band struck up The Star-Spangled Banner to start the brawl, the music was drowned out by their shouts of "Down in front!" After Moreno was peeled off the canvas and the announcer asked for "a hand for the beaten boy," the leftfield cheering section responded with a raucous Mexican razzberry...
...Snap." The thrill murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks looms over the whole book, but its only account is left to Mystery Master Erie Stanley Gardner, who provides the book's pompous introduction. Leopold begins his story hours after the deed, and this section is the most fascinating in the book. A few days after the murder, Leopold went out with his girl, and she read him Lamartine. There are other tantalizing and incongruous glimpses of Leopold's cozy Chicago background. His family called him "Babe"; his aunt was "Birdie"; Richard Loeb's mother was "Mompsie...