Word: site
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...metal shards. The trouble: one engine had lost power, thrown the Bird out of kilter, made the missile a safety hazard. On Cape Canaveral test officers quickly reacted, exploded Atlas by remote control. The missile crashed with a thud into the surf only a few miles from its launching site...
...Pilgrims' pride was not wholly fulfilled. Before Mayflower II would dock permanently near the site of-Plymouth Rock, the ship would scud southward to New York harbor for the summer, there to become a tourist attraction (adults: 90? a head) for local investors. Though on the whole the voyage was duly applauded along the northeast coast, there were unstilled rumblings from the South. Celebrators of Virginia's great Jamestown festival, annoyed that Mayflower II had arrived just in time to steal the festival's thunderous publicity occasioned by an international naval review of 114 vessels from...
...touring garden clubs, Dumbarton Oaks is a "must." To more politicallyminded Washingtonians it is the site of the 1945 post-war financial conference, which laid the groundwork for subsequent United States international monetary policies. To students of Byzantine lore, however, Harvard's center is the nucleus of American activity in their field...
...military point of view, clean megaton bombs have two strikes against them: 1) they are built at very high cost in explosive yield, presumably because they cannot use cheap and plentiful uranium 238; and 2) they may be good for special military uses, such as obliterating a city whose site must be occupied soon, but they lack the full punch of "dirty" megaton bombs. No one could be sure that a U.S. enemy, for instance, would use a clean bomb to obliterate Washington when the fallout of a dirty one might kill, in addition, most of the inhabitants of Baltimore...
...homes measured, however, are not all Harvard property. A woman whose property is near Mt. Auburn and DeWolfe Sts., site of the proposed eighth House, disclosed that she had not sold...