Word: washout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pentagon Washout. Another of Rickover's projects, a 60,000-kilowatt reactor for an airplane carrier, had a less happy outcome. Last spring, after two years of work had gone into it, Secretary of Defense Wilson canceled its "military requirement," and work on it slowed to a crawl...
...anybody's guess. A team with much potential, but with many early season losses, the nine most probably will solidify its record. It is worth remembering, however, that the Crimson's only other southern trip ended in a southern trip ended in a loss to Penn and a Washout at Princeton...
...began to work her acres with joy, only to find that her land was literally a washout. Every summer, just before harvest time, the ocean burst over the whole farm and destroyed the crops. The first time Ma saw it happen, a little of her reason was carried away too. Against all advice, she borrowed to the limit of her credit and built a sea wall to keep the ocean out. But in one season, the crabs ate through the mangrove pilings, and one night the sea carried everything away. Soon after, Ma began to throw fits...