Word: wrecking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic Congress to pass a medicare bill, to be financed under the social security system. But Kennedy reckoned without the opposition of Arkansas' Democratic Representative Wilbur Mills. Mills was not against medicare itself, but he certainly was against any sort of program that would-as he thought-wreck the sound financing of the whole social security program. And as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Mills could and did prevent passage of the Kennedy program...
...wreck is credibly contrived. While circling Mars on a reconnaissance mission, the astronaut (Paul Mantee) changes course to avoid a meteor and so falls deep into the planet's field of force. To escape eventual incineration, he ejects his capsule and plunges down into a scene of staring desolation. Hell-hot by day and by night pole-cold, the Mars of the movie supports no visible life and very little atmosphere. However, the astronaut does not expect to be there very long. From the wreck of his capsule he rescues food for 60 days, water for five days, oxygen...
...afford elaborate treasure-hunting equipment such as electronic metal-detection gear, air compressors, sand pumps and power boats. Real Eight, Inc., a group of Vero Beach-based underwater operators that has so far sunk an estimated $150,000 in the Atlantic, recently made its first major strike: the wreck of what was probably one of a group of Spanish ships that foundered in a hurricane...
...helped James Bond narrowly escape death by drowning, poison, bullets, knives, giant squids, falling cliffs, steam, rocket exhaust, auto wreck, buzz saw, scorpion bite, lethal plants, suffocation and surfeit of women. But there was no one to reciprocate for Ian Fleming, last week, in his apartment at Sandwich, where he was holidaying after reading proof on his latest, and last, James Bond adventure, The Man With the Golden Gun. He suffered a second heart attack, and four hours after he reached a hospital at Canterbury, Ian Fleming died. He had already spoken his own epitaph. "Oh," he said...
...years. But the U.N. Charter says that any nation whose payments are more than two years in arrears may lose its right to vote, and the U.S. is determined to see that the charter is en forced. The Kremlin's answer: any such attempt will wreck the United Nations...