Word: sown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dusty desert to the east of the Organ Mountains is sown with nonhuman eyes: radars, telescopic cameras, instruments to measure the missile's enormous speed. Housed in small concrete buildings or perched on platforms, they cover the whole range, which is roughly 40 miles wide and 100 miles long. Roosting on high mountains are astronomical telescopes with 16-inch mirrors that can photograph the missile like a planet in space...
Even as the half ended the seeds of defeat were being sown--Gerry Murphy got his fourth personal on a questionable call, and did not start the next half. In his place was sophomore Forrest Hansen, who added rebounding strength but made mistakes owing to inexperience...
...almost four years after World War II's end, Hollywood would as soon have made war movies as sown minefields in front of U.S. box offices. Then MGM's Battleground broke the jinx and, with Sands of I wo Jima and Twelve 0'Clock High, landed among the first ten moneymakers of 1950. Now the studios are releasing and shooting so many war films that faithful moviegoers may soon feel eligible for battle stars...
Under sharp questioning by grey, stooped Defense Attorney William Chan-ler-who described his client as a man who had sown his "mental wild oats" in his youth but had long since reformed-she admitted that neither she nor Remington had been "orthodox Communists." They had associated with Trotskyites, had not held party cards, had paid dues only irregularly. But she stuck stoutly to her story that she had frequently been along, as driver of the car, when Elizabeth Bentley and Remington met in Washington. On such occasions, she testified, she parked in various quiet spots, heard her husband...
...Constitutional Importance." But the whirlwind was already sown and the State Department never overtook it. U.S. News & World Report, which, relying on the release date, had gone to press with it last week, appeared on the stands with the full text even as Washington reporters hurried to the White House to inquire, in effect, what in hell was going...