Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presidential election,Dwight Eisenhower polled 48.9% of the major party vote cast in the Democratic "Solid South." Since then, the Administration has been responsible for-among other Negro-rights measures-pushing desegregation in the armed forces, integrating the District of Columbia schools, backing the Negro plaintiffs in the cases that brought the basic Supreme Court school desegregation decision of May 1954. In view of that performance, and with the civil rights issue in an inflammatory stage, how does Ike stand below the Mason-Dixon line...
Reception Room. The warm praise was not lightly given, nor was it a mere anniversary charity. Looking backward, the members of the China Club could count up many solid achievements for their hands-across-the-sea movement. Items...
Many airplanes, especially heavy-laden bombers, are launched by booster (jato) rockets whose powerful push gets them into the air without too long a take-off run. The rockets are expensive, whether they use liquid or solid fuel, so the West German Ministry of Transport asked jet-propulsion experts to evaluate hot-water rockets, a prewar German idea that never got a thorough tryout. Recently, Physicist Werner Michely told a meeting at Freu-denstadt that hot-water booster rockets look promising...
...water spurts out at 1,140 m.p.h. The reaction, Michely claims, can push an airplane forward just as efficiently as a fuel-burning rocket, and much more cheaply. When electricity is used for heating, the same amount of thrust costs less than one-seventieth as much as with a solid-fuel rocket. Other heat sources would be even cheaper...
Only Mario Celi, the team's most improved player, managed to halt some of B.C.'s rapid attacks, frequently with solid body-checking. His counterpart, hefty Don Fox, was Boston College's standout as he combined careful defensive work with occasional solo attempts, three of which were stopped only by goalie Flynn...