Word: tested
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...role of the ghetto policeman, said the Kerner Commission report, "is already one of the most difficult in our society. He must deal daily with a range of problems and people that test his patience, ingenuity, character and courage in ways that few of us are ever tested." Patrolman Ronald August, then 28, faced his test on the night of July 26, 1967, when Detroit writhed in the grip of the decade's worst ghetto riot. He was one of three policemen who, with state troopers and National Guardsmen, rushed into the Algiers Motel seeking a reported sniper. They...
...also likely to fill France's empty chair at the Geneva disarmament talks, which could result in eventual signing of the nuclear test-ban and nonproliferation treaties...
...Parliament, Socialists, Communists, Proletarian Socialists, Republicans and Liberals are for the first time united behind the divorce bill. Test votes show them narrowly victorious over Christian Democrats and smaller right-wing opponents. Though 101 Christian...
They also developed a relatively simple blood test to show whether an individual has already had rubella and does not need the vaccine because he is immune...
Humble Oil's executives, hoping to succeed where Explorer John Cabot failed, announced last week that they are fitting out,the 115,000-ton tanker Manhattan as an icebreaker for a pioneering-and perilous-test run through the long ice-choked Northwest Passage to the Arctic next month. Denver's King Resources Co., wagering that the Manhattan will make it, has drafted plans to build a deep-water port in Maine's Casco Bay. That port is even closer to the North Slope than Seattle is. No Alaskan oil is expected to be delivered...