Word: simplest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next 300 generations. Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard Libby, one of the world's top authorities on carbon 14, replied that bomb tests had not produced enough carbon 14 to cause more than "very minute" danger. He added: "Why should we continue nuclear-weapons tests? The answer in its simplest form is, in my opinion, that they are necessary for defense...
Although the alterations in the house will not be completely finished for two or three weeks, Harmon said, two or three people will be moving into their offices "very soon." The equipment in the laboratory will be of the "simplest kind" and will deal with computation of the satellites' activities...
...your little daughter to read that you are a 'backroom operator,' a 'wirepuller' or a 'clever man'?" Again and again comes the complaint: "People don't understand ..." But his wife Lady Bird* does. Says she: "He is the most complicated, yet the simplest of men, and sometimes a really sad fellow...
Some of the agencies have proved on occasion that they can overcome, or at least cut down, the lengthy and costly red tape that makes a nightmare out of the simplest issue. The FTC was a slow-moving bureaucracy when former Chairman Edward Howrey took over in 1953. He eliminated or bypassed many petty details of bureaucracy, cut the average time for processing an antimonopoly case from 65 months to 22 months today. Under present Chairman John Gwynne, only one in five FTC cases goes through the full and costly process; the others are settled by consent agreements...
Into TV's big bin of parlor games last week fell one of the oldest and simplest: bingo. With the legalized numbers game breaking records in New Jersey, and New York State* all set to play, Manhattan...