Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tuesday, Linden won its first game by forfeit, but was deprived of the victory the next day when the ROTC unit apathetically dropped out of the league. The chemists from Mallinckrodt will take their place on the schedule...
...minute program starring Nanette Fabray and Singer Yma Sumac on RCA's new color tubes.* There was no blurring or running of colors, even in the fastest movement, e.g., a pair of performing lovebirds flapping their wings. As a show topper, an RCA mobile unit focused on a swimming pool near New York where a troupe of swimmers and divers performed. The outdoor telecast, which RCA explained could just as well be a football game or boxing match, came through almost as clearly as the studio show...
...decision, five more Britons were charged with refusing to show their identity cards. The lower courts dismissed every case. As Liberals and Tories began clamoring for repeal of the registration act, the London Observer pronounced it "intolerable" that Britons should be required to show cards like some slave-unit in a totalitarian state...
...peels off into the sea as the next signal sends another man on to the skimming raft in his place. Below the surface, in a weirdly lighted world of coral, fish and man-made barriers, the frogmen reconnoiter the defenses of a Pacific invasion beach while others of their unit deliberately draw fire from a beach nearby...
Club Life. The five Thurbers constituted a family unit, but they were also a kind of club. Things were apt to be quite electric around the house; just how electric Jim has described in My Life and Hard Times, a book which many Thurberites consider his most durable, masterpiece. * Sometimes it got a little overwhelming for Charley Thurber. In Jim's story, The Night the Bed Fell, occurs the sentence, "It happened, then, that my father had decided to sleep in the attic ... to be away where he could think...