Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bent Twigs. The racket required only money and patience. A Chinese in the U.S. would revisit the home country, say for a year, perhaps longer. Upon his return he would inform immigration officials that his wife, still in China, had borne him a child, maybe two or three. Since the self-styled father could claim that he was a U.S. citizen, his child, accordingly, was a citizen and was so registered...
Until the ICBMs are ready, the Air Force must depend upon its manned thermonuclear bombers reinforced by its only near-operational intercontinental guided missile, the Northrop Snark, an air-breathing, star-guided, 600-m.p.h. missile that can take a hydrogen warhead 5,000 miles to target or deploy electronic countermeasures over an enemy heartland to lure defenders away from main bomber strikes elsewhere...
...ballistic missile; the solid charge will be easier, simpler, faster to handle than present types of liquid fuel. Polaris, the first true pushbutton IRBM in sight, is lighter and smaller, so cannot pack as heavy a warhead as Jupiter and Thor. Its ultimate success will depend for several years upon 1) development of hydrogen warheads lighter than present models; 2) improvement of solid fuels to get more reliability and longer range; 3) production of a fleet of new-design nuclear submarines, each equipped to store, transport and fire a big salvo. Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke looks to test...
...matter of fact, I'm getting rather fond of it." But when a colleague suggested that the museum display it in a show next fall, Dr. Cooney, keeping his standards high, retorted: "Over my dead body." camera on a high crane zoomed from a great distance upon a spotlighted Betty Furness, making her Hollywood debut as a Westinghouse saleslady after a TV career spanning Studio One's nine years in Manhattan and 308 dresses of her own. Aglow in a white linen sack with appliqued taffeta flowers, Betty brightened one commercial with Guest Star Conrad Nagel, who told...
...cowardly, but courage and the lack of it do not matter; nor does brutality or kindness. The meaninglessness of war swallows everything. West German Novelist Ott is writing about men engulfed by the dark millennium Yeats foretold when "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...