Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ulbricht's blueprint envisions nine successive rows of obstacles within a strip, 300 or more ft. wide, abutting the border; each row, as in some medieval ordeal, is progressively more difficult. If an escapee manages merely to get near this highly guarded obstacle course, which varies with the terrain, he comes up almost immediately against two 5-ft.-high fences: the first keeps out stray animals, the second needs only the slightest touch to set off a cacophony of alarms. Just beyond them is a dog run, where 247 German shepherds already prowl sectors of the border. The escapee...
Meanwhile he is increasingly busy at home. He is pushing a juvenile-delinquency bill, is fighting to keep this year's civil rights bill alive, and is again colliding with his seniors in his attempt to strip the Administration's crime-prevention bill of amendments which, he feels, would defeat the measure...
More important, and far more disturbing to the military chieftains, McNamara was able to strip the services of much of their political and economic power. He fully centralized Pentagon budgeting procedures and placed the three services' procurement operations under civilian direction--saving billions and sharply cutting the military's domestic political influence...
...sustained his drug habit, Rooks cast himself in the lead part (giving himself a pseudonym, Russell Harwick), and went to work in 16mm, deciding 6 months later to do it up proud and shoot professionally in 35mm. Only a few of the original shots remain, indicated by a black strip of masking on screen right-or-left revealing that the 16mm frame was blown up double to 32 mm, still not quite filling the 35mm frame...
...first decade of the space age. Russian space scientists have parachuted an instrument package onto Venus, but have yet to develop the approach radar and rocketry system that can set an unmanned spacecraft down on the airless moons as gently as a helicopter touches down on a landing strip...