Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What is Nike-X? Is it, as might be supposed, a wizard new missile that can seek out and destroy hostile incoming ICBMs? No. It is rather an anti-missile "system," with the most important parts on (or under) the ground...
...early months of 1954, the Velde Committee began to seek out and identify Communists in education, supposedly as a prelude to proposing new internal security legislation. On February 25, the committee questioned Robert Gorham Davis '29, professor of English at Smith and teacher at Harvard from 1933 to 1943. Davis gave the HUAC the names of ten former and one present Harvard Faculty members who had been in a CP cell with him before the second World War. Wendell Furry was the one man still at Harvard named by Davis...
...craft headed over Mexico to ward the end of its first orbit. The ship's OAMS fuel supply had gone from 410 Ibs. to 228 Ibs. in the hide-and-seek game with the booster. Director Kraft told McDivitt to take it easy on the fuel in chasing the errant booster. The astronaut replied: "It's out farther than we expected." A little later he asked Houston, "Do you want a major effort to close with this thing or save the fuel?" The instant answer: save the fuel and forget about the booster. Resigned, McDivitt said, "I guess...
...German banks, which now get blanket authorization to cast proxy votes for their shareholders at annual meeings, from now on will have to seek and follow voting instructions from each stockholder on each proposal...
...there is a floor fight over the appropriation, opponents could seek to re-introduce the restriction...