Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pentagon last week rolled a thunderous indictment of an obscure but important Army officer, Colonel John C. Nickerson Jr., 41, field coordinator for the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at top-secret Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala. Colonel Nickerson was ordered to face a Third Army court-martial on 18 tough specifications charging that he 1) included secret information on the U.S. missile program in documents sent to unauthorized civilian businessmen and newsmen (as well as-although the charges did not say it-to several Alabama Congressmen), 2) had violated national-security laws by sending three secret documents to Managing Editor Erik...
Keeping the Receipt. These were tough charges indeed for West Pointer Nickerson, who earned a master's degree at the California Institute of Technology, won a chestful of medals for gallantry in action in World War II. Nickerson, moving upward through Army Ordnance to his big job at Redstone Arsenal, shared many Army officers' gnawing fear that the Army was being shouldered more and more to the sidelines of the U.S. defense setup. Specifically, Nickerson felt that the Army's Jupiter, a 1,500-mile intermediate-range ballistic missile, was more promising than the Air Force...
...this will prove very beneficial to Colorado College tomorrow night when it meets Michigan for the championship, but tonight the varsity just could not capitalize on these handicaps. It could never really crack through the unexpectedly tough Wolverine defense until 15:17 of the final period when Bob McVey saved the Crimson from a shutout with a blazing shot that Michigan goalie Ross Childs never...
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO., March 14--An unbelievably fast and tough Colorado College sextet advanced to the finals of the NCAA Hockey Tournament tonight by defeating a scrappy but outmanned Clarkson team...
...defense is not particularly big, but it played a very tough game tonight. The Tigers' only weakness seems to be their goalie, Bob Southwood, who looked very bad on two of tonight's scores for the Knights...