Word: starting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Before World War II, the proudest moment in the declining years of the great, square-rigged cargo carriers was the annual "grain race" from Australia to England. Some 20 windjammers hauled anchor down under at the start of that race in 1932, but by 1949 only two were left to make the run: the Pamir and her sister ship, the Passat. One by one, the others had fallen foul of wind and wave and the economic pressures of their own huffing and puffing competitors. But even though the world of commerce chose to bypass the windjammers, there were many, particularly...
...Peninsula. Covered by planes and ships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet, the Marines brought in by helicopter heavy gear that parachutists normally could not carry, and then set forth to smash enemy forward positions, wreck supply lines and create such havoc that the beleaguered Turkish defenders of Istanbul could start rolling again...
...attempt to give a topical horror story broad human appeal, the show at worst falls at times into cliché; it does not start with it. Distinguished merit West Side Story lacks; but its distinguishing merit, its putting choreography foremost, may prove a milestone in musical-drama history...
...Director Bill McAndrew learned this, he telephoned Day and said hopefully: "This is bigger than both of us." Day agreed, and arranged to share CBS pickups with NBC. The CBS gesture proved to be bread cast on the waters. At the last moment before the special telecasts were to start, CBS's telephone line to its Little Rock mobile unit went dead. For the next few hours, to get advance information and send instructions, Day relayed everything through NBC's McAndrew, who was connected with his own mobile unit less than half a block away from...
...that when a mammalian ovum is fertilized, the sex of the individual into which it will develop is determined by the sperm that does the fertilizing. Half the sperm cells have X chromosomes, which produce females. The other half have Y chromosomes, which produce males. So a way to start to control sex might be to separate the sperm cells into X and Y fractions before insemination...