Word: awaited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great.They begin on the ground, where the Thor rocket has yet to prove its reliability. The probe should be launched only during the four days of the month when the moon is in the best position for tracking; if the rocket fizzles on the launching pad, another attempt must await the same short period next month. Even if the probe does get off on schedule, the perils of imprecision mount as the vehicle soars closer to the moon. The margin for error at the rendezvous point is about 30 minutes, and the slightest miscalculation in the rocket's fuel...
Barber's men drove their prisoner straight to the San Francisco airport. A U.S. Border Patrol plane sped him to Vancouver, where cooperative Canadian authorities locked him in jail to await a Europe-bound plane. Three days after his arrest, Heikkila landed at chilly Helsinki with $11.50 in cash, no luggage, no topcoat, found that he had suddenly become internationally famous...
...York (14% Negro). Of the prisoners confined in houses of detention last year to await court disposition of their cases, 44% of the males and 65% of the females were Negroes...
...smoke-heavy hotel room. But last week Cheney Griffin suddenly discovered himself in a setting that made him ill at ease. Indicted on charges of accepting a $1,500 political bribe, Cheney taxied down to Atlanta's Fulton County jail, posted $2.500 bond, then skipped off to await his trial next month...
...article says, "Among the peoples of Asia dancing is still an organic and important part of religion; each step and gesture . . . may be loaded with metaphysical meaning." The inner meaning in the new vitality Protestantism is recovering in the suburbs is yet to be appreciated by you. We hopefully await the day when a reporter from TIME will do as much for the natives in suburban American churches as he does for the Asian natives. RUSSELL J. BECKER ROBERT A. EDGAR THEOPHILUS RINGSMUTH CLINTON M. RITCHIE...