Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SUPER SABRE, North American's new supersonic F-100 fighter on which the Air Force is spending $100 million, has been grounded for a thorough check after a series of crashes. Three of the new 800-m.p.h. jets have crashed mysteriously, killing two pilots, including Britain's Air Commodore Geoffrey Stephenson, boss of the R.A.F.'s tactical school, who spun into the ground last week on a flight in Florida...
...attempt to reduce the Liberal Union's membership, the Conservative League is conducting a thorough investigation of the past history of the group, David B. Cole '55, Conservative League president, revealed last night...
...Russia's Vishinsky quickened a few U.N. pulses by hinting that Russia might agree to a British-French plan for a step-by-step suppression of nuclear weapons. To U.S. experts, Vishinsky's seeming concession still looked like a plan with a built-in veto against thorough inspection-and the stalemate continued. Last week in the U.N. Political Committee, India's Krishna Menon rose to comment: "Let us decide this matter once...
...Brealte, repudiates her husband, eventually suffers the ignominious fate of ostracism. In Leopards and Lilies, talented Author Duggan (The Little Emperors) is caught with his drawbridge down: the story is not as fleet as Angevin England's fast-moving Leopard banners. But, as usual, Duggan has a thorough grasp of the political and social hanky-panky of his period. The publisher offers unsatisfied buyers of the book any substitute title they may pick off the current bestseller list, but current bestsellers being what they are, readers might as well stick with Duggan...
...Senior Class Day Committee, it behaved much like the quack doctor who decided to cut off his patient's toe because of a sore toe. Recognizing the evil in the election procedure for the Permanent Class and Class Day Committees is meritable, but the Council should make a more thorough examination of the problem before its final decision tonight...