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Word: somes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Glaring in the darkness like some colossal firework, a 98-ft. rocket blasted off a launching pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla. one night last week. As it zoomed skyward, trailing a gaudy glow of reds and greens, a watcher in the Canaveral blockhouse gasped out an awed, unscientific tribute: "Isn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: We're in Trouble | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Into the Sea. Some 40 seconds after the Atlas-Able blasted off, a flame-colored chunk fell off the rocket and hurtled into the sea. "I've never seen this before," growled a watching Air Force officer. "We're in trouble. We're in trouble. I'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: We're in Trouble | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Hunting for some other way out, the surplus-surfeited corn belt shifted its sentiment toward tighter controls. The Illinois Farm Bureau, biggest in the nation, voted for an unprecedented plan of compulsory acreage retirement, a sort of unsubsidized soil bank, plus a subsidy-in-kind scheme that would hand out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: End of the Row? | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

With that blunt inquiry, Bishop Pike inevitably dropped the problem at the doorstep of the nation's best-known Roman Catholic office seeker-Jack Kennedy. Dodging a personal opinion of the bishops' policy ("That's my business"), Kennedy burned at being put on the spot. Bishop Pike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: The Birth Control Issue | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

"We don't want to be lured into the position of debating integration," said Chicago Investment Broker Harold Lewis, chairman of the anti-integration committee at the village mass meeting. "But in essence they are trying to force integration down the throats of the people of Deerfield, and we...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUBURBIA: High Cost of Democracy | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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