Word: station
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...champion's seventh title defense in 13 months, and Clay claimed he was as busy as Joe Louis at his prime. To show if he was as good as Louis, the TV station ran some old films after the fight of the Brown Bomber destroying big fat Tony Galento...
...been a central consideration in the Soviets' decision to deploy an operational ABM system. Soviet planners cannot have escaped the realization that our growing fleet of nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarines represents a challenge to their security entirely unmatched by their offensive or defensive arsenal. These submarines "on station" give the U.S. a guaranteed second-strike capability, a force in being that could reasonably be expected to survive the first blow and retaliate. I believe that the Soviets feel compelled to fashion some sort of "reply" to the FBM submarine fleet; American planning should assume that the U.S.S.R. will...
...dreary village of Galánta, Hungary, Composer Zoltán Kodály haunted the local railroad station, watching the come-and-go of peasants lustily singing their folk songs. "I would stand open-mouthed," he once recalled, "listening to the music die away as the train bore them off. But even then it always seemed to me that a thread of melody remained trembling in the air." For Kodály, who died last week of a heart attack at 84, those simple melodies became the wellspring of a creative life that enriched the music of Hungary...
...enable pilots to detour around flocks of birds, much as they now avoid thunderstorms. With the aid of biologists, meteorologists and radar experts, Canada's Associate Committee on Bird Hazards to Aircraft last year converted the R.C.A.F. base at Cold Lake, Alta., into an electronic bird-watching station...
People unaccustomed to writing have taken pencil in hand to carve smudgy letters of praise to the Courier. The comments echo those of a graying man sitting on a barrel at a gas station in Bessemer one summer afternoon: "That's a good paper. It's easy to read...