Word: uprightly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strategy burst suddenly on a somnolent Senate. Announced Johnson: Civil rights amendments may be offered to the Stella school bill. Quickly, Georgia's Senator Richard B. Russell, leader of the outfoxed Southern Democrats, was bolt upright, protesting "the lynching of orderly procedure." Maverick Democrat Wayne Morse of Oregon, though ardently pro-civil rights, joined in the protest because "I am opposed to legislation by rider...
...come prefabricated. Biggest part of the job is filling the casing with fuel, which is a secret liquid plastic compound mixed with crystalline potassium perchlorate to supply oxygen. The mixing is done in a plant that is mostly underground. A crane running on rails sets the empty booster casing upright in a square hole. Then an odd-looking little building mounted on rails moves over each casing and carefully pours it full of paste-thick fuel. When the building rolls to the next hole, the filled casing is covered with sheet metal and heated by pipes set in the hole...