Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high a price of the U.S. Said he: "Under this treaty we close the door on sure knowledge of the survivability of our second-strike capability, the very capability which, until now, has been the shield of peace in this world. We halt the search for the widest span of nuclear know-how at a point where the total test yields of the Soviet are a full third greater than our own. I will vote against this treaty because it will erode our military strength. I will vote against this treaty because it preserves the enemy's advances...
...crests of ridges to provide tenants spectacular views without obstructing the views of others. One breathtaking idea is a bridge crossing a canyon to link one section of the mountain roadway; Pereira suggests that the bridge be paid for with the rents from a hotel suspended under the swooping span...
They cover the span of a very long and checkered life." It was his hope, said the old soldier, that the story would be "of some interest to the general public and some help to the future historian." Written in a firm and clear hand, from his own recollections and his own papers, MacArthur's 220,000-word manuscript was completed in six months. It takes the full measure of his illustrious career-World War I, his service in the Philippines, the 1932 Bonus March on Washington, which MacArthur, then Army Chief of Staff, stemmed at "the Battle...
...proper way to implement the judge's charge to "deter the wrongdoer from repeating trespass." As for the $60,000 general damages, that was simply the jury's calculation of Butts's future earning capacity. "Butts is 58 years old. We figured his life span at twelve more years and agreed on $5,000 a year...
...Mark Epernay? That was the literary puzzle of the week on the New Frontier. Epernay is the pseudonymous author of The McLandress Dimension, a satire to be published this fall by Houghton Mifflin Co. The "dimension" is defined as the longest span of time that a person's thoughts can remain centered on something other than himself. Elizabeth Taylor rates three minutes, the Rev. Martin Luther King four hours. Some New Frontiersmen get only so-so ratings-President Kennedy 29 minutes, Under Secretary of State Averell Harriman 12.5 minutes. Suspected perpetrator: John Kenneth Galbraith, 54, Harvard economist, until lately...