Word: containment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Northeastern's man-to-man defense could not contain the Crimson as cutters repeatedly broke loose under the boards for easy one-handers and lay-ups. When the Huskies tried to lay back to frustrate the driving offense, George Harrington lofted long sets to reopen the keyhole area. Playing his usual brilliant game, Harrington also notched 19 points and assisted in several more...
...wing will contain one-fourth of the Law School library, a reading room, faculty offices, four classrooms, and work space for students engaged in advanced research...
Conditions in the apartment gave substance to her words. Two children of preschool age were using the living room as a playpen, several times coming dangerously close to extinction from electrical wiring, paperweights, and other threatening objects. The kitchen, its plaster peeling, was too narrow to contain an ironing board and chair; and the bedroom, far from copious, held two beds and a cradle...
...sign of Babs's sixth husband, Baron Gottfried von Cramm, 48, onetime tennistar, in her immediate vicinity. Will Phil be No. 7?."You're flattering me terribly," bubbled Heiress Hutton. "It's not true." But at week's end, boyish Phil Van Rensselaer could not contain his own enchantment. He confided to a Manhattan newshen that he is definitely on Babs's future matrimonial program. In Mexico, sometime in January, said Phil, Babs will become Mrs. Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow Grant Troubetskoy Rubirosa von Cramm Van Rensselaer...
...Clean" thermonuclear bombs, like clean small boys, do not necessarily stay clean for long. The most familiar kind of radioactive fallout comes from the fission of plutonium or uranium 235, and from the so-called clean bombs that the U.S. Government has announced contain only small amounts of these troublemaking substances. The bulk of the bomb's bang comes from fusion of hydrogen, which creates no fission products...