Word: surely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief medical examiner of New Jersey's Monmouth County, where Carmela formerly lived, began seven months of painstaking detective work. Gilman imported six rabbits to his farm, injected them with lethal doses of succinylcholine chloride, buried them (one with embalming fluid), and a month later disinterred the bodies. Sure enough, he reported, autopsies revealed telltale traces of the drug's components, though not of the compound itself. As a result, Gilman had Carmela's body exhumed and a four-month analysis performed on vital organs. Said Gilman: "What we found was enough to make us exhume Colonel...
...arrow" method. Spotters ashore send target coordinates to the ships' Combat Information Centers, where men with aluminum ballistic slide rules (copied from a cardboard original found aboard one of the ships) swiftly tot up the deflection, angle-bearing and elevation of the rocket launchers. Then, just to make sure, one officer stands on the bridge to double-check the course of the rockets. Last week, as McCoy's Navy plastered everything from ammo dumps to Viet Cong villages in support of Saigon's Operation Franklin, accuracy on all targets ranged from...
...Sure enough. A few years later, stories spread of a secret meeting in Sèvres, near Paris, a week before the invasion. Selwyn Lloyd was said to have met French Foreign Minister M. Christian Pineau and Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, and worked out the full invasion plan in advance. Ben-Gurion himself admitted the meeting, and claimed that the three nations discussed the need for British collaboration because Israel wanted to guarantee the destruction of Egypt's air force. Did the British actually agree...
Nobody knows for sure how many fans watch soccer each year, although estimates run to 500 million. Queen Elizabeth and 97,000 of her more delirious subjects crammed into Wembley Stadium to watch the climactic contest of a 71 -nation competition that started two years ago. England was the odds-on (at 1-2) favorite on the strength of a tenacious defense, led by Captain Bobby Moore, that had allowed just one goal (on a penalty shot) during the entire World Cup playoff - plus a swarming, aggressive offense sparked by Bobby Charlton, who scored both goals when England beat Portugal...
...slipped one point to 45.29, or 2%. The Dow-Jones rail average also hit a 1966 low of 220.26, a fact that immediately led some pessimists to recall a Wall Street adage to the effect that when industrials and rails establish new lows in tandem, it is a sure sign of a bear market...