Word: worked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Organized crime, regrettably, is often efficient enough to avoid prosecution when it does something significantly heinous. It would be nice if big-time criminals could be locked up just because everyone knew they were big-time criminals. The Anglo-American legal system, however, doesn't work that way. But, if the "conspiracy to obstruct justice" charge sticks, maybe it does...
...viewer receives the impression that he is watching a document, an amazing document to be sure, but not an entirely absorbing one--and thus his eyes keep drifting over to the blue rimmed clock at the side of the screen. One can see the beauty of the camera work, the delicacy of the composition, but one can stare in dull amaze for only so long...
Ever since his entry into government, Senator Powers never once relented in his drive and determination to fulfill his oath of office. Morning and night, week after week, month after month, and year after year he has given himself to his work with and for people...
...best example of this work came right after Harvard's second touchdown. Jack Hanlon returned Halaby's kickoff 21 yards up the left sideline, and the Quakers, with Fred Doelling and Hanlon running brilliantly, moved to a first down on the Crimson eight-yard line. Three charges into the Harvard defenses gained only six yards, and on fourth down the powerful Hanlon was stopped for no gain at the Harvard two-yard mark by Dave Cappiello and Eric Nelson...
...designed to generate 1.500,000 Ibs. of blast-off thrust, after Sputnik I revealed the U.S.S.R.'s enormous launching capacity. Nobody in authority responded until the Russians blasted 7,000 Ibs. into space with Sputnik III in May 1958. Then the Pentagon ordered Von Braun to get to work on Saturn. The Budget Bureau promptly tried to stop it, and Director Roy Johnson of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (who is resigning soon) got it going again. Then Dr. Herbert York, the Defense Department's director of research and engineering, opposed it because, so said York...