Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burst out of South China, through the port of Hong Kong. From there tramp steamers carried it around the world, causing at least 10 million deaths in a decade, 6,000,000 of them in India. Ever since, plague has simmered in a dozen infected areas, has caused several thousand deaths in most years. Last week the World Health Organization announced in Geneva that in 1957 only 514 deaths due to plague were reported in the free world and only 44 of them in India. At long last, it looked as though the Black Death was licked...
...ground at a fairly fast clip. The first stage burned for 150 seconds. When its fuel was gone, about 60 miles above the earth, most of the Redstone dropped away, leaving only a short section of the nose attached to the spinning bucket. As it zoomed upward at several thousand miles per hour, a gyroscopically controlled device turned the missile's attitude toward the horizontal by blowing jets of compressed air through nozzles. This process took about 240 seconds. By that time the bird was at the peak of its first-stage flight, and pointing in the direction...
...stock, which reached a low of 13¼ last week. Bob Young, who had borrowed heavilyto buy the 100,000 shares of Central stock he owned, was forced by lenders to sell as the price skidded lower. By year's end he had unloaded all but a few thousand of his remaining shares "to take tax losses." Friends insisted Young's own personal finances were in good shape, but it was a bitter blow for him to lose so much money on his own road...
Promising sophomores like Ed Martin and Pat Liles will be watched especially closely, in view of their excellent records last year. Martin will probably start in both the mile and the one thousand yard races, while Liles will compete in the broad jump, an event he won in last summer's Oxford-Cambridge meet. Middle-distance man Art Cahn and jumper Bob Downes will also be making their first starts at the varsity level...
...President is too big for any one man; the country should be run by a Supreme Court. Too long the fate of the nation has been in the hands of mere politicians, among whom there is not a statesman in a thousand carloads...