Word: broads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harry Truman replied, at his press conference, that hardly a week goes by that that very matter is not brought up at the U.N., at his suggestion. As for the Vandenberg proposal: he didn't think it necessary or advisable. Two hours later, broad-shouldered Brien McMahon of Connecticut rose to speak in the Senate. No scientist (he was a wealthy trial lawyer, and a New Deal officeholder before being elected to the Senate), he had been shocked into grave concern during long, secret sessions of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy over which he had presided...
...tugs pulled, winches ground, a flood tide whipped by a chill north wind nudged at her sides. Last week, on the fifth try, the mighty U.S.S. Missouri heaved a metallic sigh and slipped off the Chesapeake Bay shoal where she had sat, unbudging, on her big broad bottom, for 15 days. The band played Anchor's Aweigh and Nobody Knows de Trouble I See. In drydock, the damage proved slight. This week, haggard Captain William D. Brown, whose troubles were just beginning, would have to explain to a court of inquiry how, on his first trip as her commanding...
...could such needs be met? A start could be made, said the report, at the employment office: applicants should be "welcomed, not merely tolerated." Once hired, an employee should be educated, beyond the narrow limits of his own job, to the broad aspects of company policy, thus giving him "pride in his job and pride in his company...
...yard high hurdles--won by Ederer; 3, Twtichell. Time: 5.5. 300-yard run--3, Twitchell. 600-yard run--3, Brown. 1000-yard run--won by Judy. Time: 2:30.8. Discus--3, Lewis. 28-pound weight throw--won by Black; 3, Curran. Disance: 53 feeet, 11 1/2 inches. Broad jump--won by Mello. Distance: 20 feet, 6 inches. High jump--2, Mello; Lown tied for third. Pole vault--won by Mello; Lynne and Lown tied for third. Height: 12 feet...
...yard dash--Carter, Sperber, Pearlstein; 600-yard run--Thayer, Grutzner; 1000-yard run--Rosen, Berman; mile--Cairns, Leeming; two-mile--Gregory, Everett; 60-yard hurdles--Durakis, McCormick; one-mile relay--Durakis, Tsavaris, Thayer, McGrath; two-mile relay--Cairns or Ellis, Baker, Ruby, Williams; high jump--Barwise, Best; broad jump--Carter, Geick; pole vault--Lockett; 35-pound weight--Tootell, Rubin; shot put--Tootell, Trimble, Kanter...