Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even if Cambridge were chosen to participate in the test, Burke expressed doubt that the city Civil Defense unit would be prepared to evacuate people from the city. "We aren't prepared to evacuate now, and probably won't be ready by June. But there is a possibility," Burke said...
...farm from the virgin bush, and now owns 1,200 acres of asparagus, pyrethrum (a plant from which insecticides are made) and dairy-cattle country in the lush Subukia valley. In World War II, he molded a pioneer battalion of brawny East African tribesmen into a crack combat unit, led them through the Ethiopian campaign. Blundell's business connections (breweries, newspapers, canneries) and his bluff man-to-man likableness soon won him the job of leader of the white settlers in the Kenya legislature...
...beginning was in the heads of several Cambridge people who had written verse-plays. They had not been able to see them on a stage because no one with enough capital was very eager to risk it on verse-plays. Early in 1950 these writers drifted into a unit at poet Richard Eberhart's house and elected him president of Poets' Theatre: "Founded to produce original plays of literary and dramatic excellence...
...Force ROTC seniors at the College will definitely receive second lieutenant commissions upon graduation, provided they are approved by the unit's review board, the Air Force's Division of Training in Washington said yesterday...
Colonel Frank P. Bostrom, professor of Air Science and Tactics and head of the Harvard unit, said yesterday he had not yet received official confirmation of the Pentagon ruling but that he expected it momentarily...