Word: soliders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...furor over the CIA's real and putative misdeeds has obscured its solid accomplishments over many years. Except for rare periods of war, the U.S. did not even have an overall intelligence service until the Office of Strategic Services was created in 1942; it provided Americans with a hazardous and exhilarating cram course in espionage. OSS members formed the nucleus of the CIA, which was started in 1947 in response to Soviet expansionism. The agency attracted talented recruits from campuses in the 1950s, and its activities spread adventurously, and occasionally recklessly...
...diplomatic maneuvering over the Soviets' sagging satellite began in mid-December. It centered, at first, in a green-painted chamber housed half a mile deep within the solid pink granite of Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain, headquarters of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD). There, technicians at the Space Defense Center track the 4,600 pieces of machinery now floating in space -including no fewer than 939 satellites...
...class. Bob Cusamano moved up to the 142-1b. division and led 4-1 before getting caught and pinned at 4:20. Co-captain Tom Bixby earned an 8-4 victory in the 150-1b. contest to raise his record to a solid...
...neighbors, James A. Carr seemed a solid citizen. He was the smooth-talking president of Boston-based Lloyd, Carr & Co., which billed itself as the nation's largest firm in the arcane field of commodity options, and in less than two years had spawned twelve offices, reaching west to San Francisco. He lived in a $200,000 harborside house, drove his wife and three daughters around in a Rolls-Royce, and gave sage interviews to Boston newspapers. Last week he appeared to have also been the author of one of the biggest frauds to surface in years...
...solid sterling is Silverman's reputation that the stock of ABC immediately dropped 1½ points, while RCA, which owns NBC, rose by nearly the same amount. In the offices and hallways of Manhattan's RCA Building, exultation at the Great Silverman Snatch bubbled through every conversation. Said one executive, reflecting on the recent firing of 300 NBCers by the network: "After all this head chopping, they're doing what they should have done in the first place-getting somebody good...