Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boys in Central Park. She also played forward on a basketball team called "The Mysterious Five," which practiced at the 134th Street Boys Club and scheduled as many as four games a week with local industrial clubs. "I just wanted to play, play, play," says Althea. "My mother would send me out with money for bread, and I'd be out from morning to dark-and not bring home the bread...
...build it. He provided his people with free movies, medicine, scholarships, as well as advice and comfort. When French guns were aimed at Giadinh during the bloody battle for Saigon in 1946, it was Jacques Cua who crept through the rebel lines to persuade the commanding French general to send food and money to the parish instead of bombs and bullets...
...creation of a joint Russian-Afghan trading mission, the granting to the Russians of the right to begin "disinterested" explorations for oil in the arid wastes of northern Afghanistan (a similar request by the French was rejected by the Afghans under Russian pressure in 1952) and an agreement to send more Afghan students to the U.S.S.R. for training...
Like fishermen trolling in strange water, atomic physicists send instruments groping through the earth's upper atmosphere to trap whatever happens to come by. Last week scientists at the University of Minnesota reported that they had caught a whopper: a helium nucleus moving a shade slower than the speed of light with a force at least 150,000 times as powerful as the greatest energy produced by man-the 6 billion electron volts whirled out by the University of California's bevatron...
...farms produce too much wheat, an individual farmer cannot keep the price up by holding part of his crop off the market: even a big farmer's share of the total wheat supply is a thimbleful in a carload. In a free market, even modest surpluses can send farm prices sinking drastically. Vulnerable as they are, the farmers look to Washington for help...