Word: upper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overdue? Ike smiled again, admitted that he had been wondering the same thing himself. "I think maybe I should check up," he said. At week's end, having checked, he went to Walter Reed Hospital to take care of the tests and also get rid of a split upper left molar...
First step, said Putt, one of the Air Force's topflight aviator-engineers (Carnegie Tech, Caltech), will be to use existing ballistic missiles to boost Sputnik-type satellites into orbits. The Thor can be fitted with upper stages that will launch a satellite weighing more than one ton, said Putt, and the Atlas (none has flown full range yet) can launch a two-ton satellite, or better...
According to one intelligence report, it is located in upper Egypt. Its powerful. Czech-made (50 kw.) transmitter is placed in a bombproof underground shelter against possible renewal of the R.A.F. attacks that knocked out Cairo's Voice of the Arabs during the Suez campaign. Guarded by special police, the station is operated through the office of Nasser's righthand man, Ali Sabri, who is overall boss of Egyptian intelligence, and is manned by a pair of Egyptian engineers who learned their business working with RCA in New York. Its programs are piped from Cairo on a special...
...Frondizi's margin swelled, he kept a wary eye on the military leaders who had risked everything to overthrow Perón. With perhaps a faint quiver of the upper lip he announced: "I have no commitments to anyone, and will govern solely for 20,000,000 Argentines...
...four teacher organizations, launched a bristling attack upon some other targets. Among them: ¶ Automatic promotion : "The elementary teachers are told that a child must not fail nor be held back because he will be 'unhappy.' But will he be happy when he reaches the upper grades and finds himself still unable to read effectively?" ¶ The dogma that the school is responsible for the "whole" child: "As long as instruction for social living takes precedence over those subjects which are designed to equip the student to take his place as a member of the human race...