Word: soarings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russia before the ideological split in 1960. Its gaseous-diffusion plant at Lanchow is estimated to turn out enough U-235 to build some 20 bombs a year, and Peking now has as many as 80 bombs of various kinds in various stages of development. That rate will likely soar sharply: U.S. scientists estimate that Peking will have a stockpile of 100 H-bombs alone...
...shortage of helicopters is easily detected and quickly cured. But the ultimate effects of McNamara's decisions to scrap projects such as the Air Force's Dyna-soar spacecraft and to phase out long-range heavy bombers, will not be fully measurable for years. McNamara has been spending $7 billion a year for research and development, far more than had been allocated previously; yet he is accused of killing more projects than he carries out. Ten years hence, the nuclear aircraft engine, which he abandoned, may prove to be a vital necessity...
...When you soar like an eagle, you attract the hunters." So said Attorney Milton S. Gould last September in arguing that his client, Miami Beach Industrialist Louis E. Wolfson, 55, was the innocent victim of a U.S. Government vendetta. A New York federal jury disagreed, found the high-flying Wolfson guilty on each of the 19 counts against him. Last week that conviction brought Wolfson, chairman of the Merritt-Chapman & Scott construction complex and one of the U.S.'s most controversial corporate raiders, a one-year prison sentence and $100,000 fine. Federal Judge Edmund L. Palmieri also sentenced...
...doubters can now rest easy. In Nelly Sachs, the academy or its scouts turned up the real thing. Poetry is the power to make the spirit soar even when meaning is obscured by emotion, and her work fully measures up to that definition. Nelly Sachs and the Nobel Prize were properly joined...
...batter insists, the plate umpire will examine the ball-but by then the evidence has dried up or been wiped away by the catcher. In one game at Boston, visiting hitters complained so often that Red Sox pitchers were doctoring the ball that Umpire Hank Soar called for it, examined it carefully, found it clean-and in a gesture of resignation spat on it himself before firing it back to the mound...