Word: solidated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program began in 1955, when President Eisenhower directed the Navy to adapt the Army's liquid-fuel Jupiter missile for use on surface ships. This proved impractical, but the Navy within a year had made dramatic progress toward development of its own solid-fuel Polaris missile, and had also overcome many of the technical problems of designing a nuclear-powered submarine. The two programs logically became one. Working side by side, Admirals William F. Raborn (more recently head of the CIA) and Hyman Rickover headed a team that devised a complex navigational device that could plot...
Remembered best for his broken-field running and acrobatic pass receiving, Casey weighed only 155 pounds during a which earned him a solid place Harvard football history...
...point last week, it looked as if Bombay's prayers might finally be answered. Clouds thickened; then a fine drizzle fell over the city. It lasted only a few hours. What Bombay needed was a solid four or five days of full-fledged monsoon. At week's end the best the weatherman could offer was a forecast of "cloudy with occasional rains or showers...
...right was first extended to less solid property in 1741, when Poet Alexander Pope sued to prevent publication of certain letters of his that had fallen into a bookseller's hands, claiming that they were still his property. Pope was upheld-not on the ground of any right to privacy but rather that his property rights had been violated. Among other things, the ruling touched on the important right to refuse to communicate-or to choose with whom one will communicate...
...sexes were not wearing clothes. The Greenup Circuit Court fined Clarence and Ben jamin $1,000 apiece for violating Kentucky's Nudist Society Act, which required all nudist colonies to pay an annual license fee of $1,000, register all members, and segregate the premises with a solid masonry wall 20 ft. high. Unreasonable and unconstitutional, ruled Kentucky's highest court as it voided the Roes' convictions and stripped the nudist law from the books. Calling the wall "prohibitive" and the fee excessive, the court scoffed at the law's definition of a nudist as anyone...