Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also constantly tested Army-wide, often at 3 or 4 a.m.: how fast each unit can be combat loaded and on the road toward prepared battle positions. Minimum requirements for each unit's mobilization of manpower: 50% strength in 30 minutes, 35% more in two hours, no more than 15% on leave at once. Yet in their drills the battle-ready battalions never roll all the way to their carefully prepared positions. Reason: in the age of tactical missiles, battle positions are secret; the Seventh wants no fixed Russian missiles zeroed in on battle targets...
...impossible to single out key events, since a surprise performance or a smashing victory anywhere along the line could break this perennially explosive meet wide open. Strong Crimson performances in the first two events, the mile and the 440, could, as they have in the past, precipitate a decisive triumph...
...education is concerned is expected to be more flexible than that of her husband. The man can concentrate his education with a career in mind: his wife must usually adapt hers to him. Consequently, it is better that the girl come out of school with a wide-ranging background (even at the expense of its being a little nebulous) rather than emerging a rigidly intellectually formed botanist or medieval philosopher or drama critic or anything else...
...three or four times a week. About a quarter of these bring sack lunches; the others buy from a cafeteria selection that includes excellent ham-and cheeseburgers. Half did not list any extracurricular activity except "work," but the rest claim to spend around seven hours a week on a wide variety of clubs and sports...
...possibility of a partial rather than an industry-wide union strike was raised by Iron Age, the industry trade publication. Relations between the union and companies, though still friendly, began to get a bit more edgy. The union contended that the steel industry mutual aid plan caused the tenseness...