Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decided to study India's politics at the state level rather than beginning at New Delhi," said Lloyd. "In India, the states produce the national leaders. With a federal system composed of states the size of Germany and France, they don't recruit out of parliament as the British do. In fact, one of India's difficulties is finding state leaders capable of being national figures. We couldn't do all fourteen states, so we picked Rajastan in the North and Madras in the South...
...attempt to gain a charter from the Republican State Committee, the Harvard Eisenhower Club has begun an all-out drive to recruit freshman members with a special plan for installment memberships. One of the two Executive Committee members canvassing the dorms speculated yesterday that "theoretically, at our present rate, we could get 200 members...
Marriage Revealed. Geoffrey Home, 24, cinemactor (the commando recruit in The Bridge on the River Kwai); and Nancy Berg, 26, actress-model, onetime sandwoman of Manhattan's WRCA-TV late late mattress-sponsored show Count Sheep; in Manhattan...
...does please nobody. When Floyd tries to recruit some beer-guzzling publicans for his choir, he scandalizes the pastor, who is devoted to muscular Christianity ("Yes, Christ is alive today, out in the field batting for us"). When Floyd laces into his choirwomen for turning the house of prayer into a den of cake sellers, the outraged ladies sing like hornets. Bank Teller Floyd has always regarded his life as a deposit for his wife and three kids, but when he fails to expire on schedule ("I wish he'd die and have done with"), they up and leave...
...clusters will not be necessary, Dr. Ritchey says, because solid-fuel engines (unlike their liquid-fuel rivals) can be stepped up in power almost indefinitely. To show how this can be done, he starts with the semisecret Recruit rocket, which burns solid fuel, is 9 in. in diameter, weighs about 350 Ibs. and has 35,000 Ibs. of thrust. Using a set of formulas, he scales it up 50 times (perfectly feasible, he says) and comes out with a rocket that weighs 43,000,800 Ibs. and has 87,500,000 Ibs. of thrust, twice as much as is needed...