Word: stub
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outside Hanoi, the peasants have stub bornly resisted the Communists. After rural unrest in 1956, collective farms were all but abandoned, and the peasants were enlisted in "manpower exchange brigades," which means only that they occasionally give one another a hand, as they always have. Since the population is booming by 3.5% a year, North Viet Nam is having difficulty just feeding its people...
...cold, rarefied upper atmosphere nine miles above California's Mojave Desert, the B-52 mother ship let go of the stub-winged X-15 research plane and swung away. In his cramped cockpit, greying Test Pilot Joseph Walker, 38, flicked a series of switches, and the black needle-nosed X-15's eight rocket chambers roared into fiery life. On a high-altitude research mission for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Walker was not supposed to be trying for a speed record. But he pushed his plane as fast as skill could push...
...Memphis, after being ordered by his teacher to swallow what he was chewing, Rangel Burks, 7, obliged, was taken to the hospital with a pencil stub in his stomach...
...fact, the only thing really worth seeing is Juliet Prowse, a young South African hoofer who puts some twinkle in the stub-toed choreography. And the only thing really worth hearing is the crack that Frank flips back at Juliet when she whips a redoubtable hip in his direction...
Loyal Rockefeller partisans refused to see the withdrawal as a retreat. They dreamed headily that somewhere along the line Dick Nixon might stub his toe, that the Administration's gambles on foreign policy might fall apart and that delegates would call for a Rockefeller draft at the Chicago convention. Beyond that they had another dream: that somehow Nixon might get defeated in 1960. Presumably that would finish Nixon and open up to Rockefeller the vista...