Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kindly Kadena. But only a showbiz expert like Club Manager Klauzar would have the daring to go shopping for Stateside acts like the De Castro Sisters, Sammy Davis Jr. or Ray Anthony's band to provide a floor show for the tired airman who has spent a hard day in the hangar or office...
Five days later, sonar operators made the second hard contact, but an attack only sent the intruder to 420 ft., well beyond the 300-ft. range of the Argentine depth charges. On the eighth day, radar spotted a sub, or its snorkel, above the surface. The target dived to 540 ft., but the pursuers heard a sound like hammering for the next two days, possibly indicating damage being repaired...
There was not a scintilla of hard evidence to indicate what a submarine would be doing prowling around the desolate Patagonian coast or to suggest its nationality, except that the U.S. and British Ambassadors promptly disclaimed ownership. Sonar can confuse submarines with whales, old wrecks, even underseas prominences. Most of the world still waited for the Argentine navy to produce a real-life submarine. If it does, the reward may be the biggest appropriations...
Tito struck then, and the world was shocked by the cynical mockery of Stepi-nac's twelve-day trial for collaboration with the Nazi puppet regime during the war. The sentence: 16 years at hard labor...
...deeply, and for what cause, should the press dig into a man's past? In a free press there can be no hard and fast answer to such a question. But last week there seemed to be a clear case of a great newspaper having gone too far, and for the wrong reasons...