Word: recoverable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the glacier finally drew back toward Canada (about 23,000 B.C.), the unburdened crust began to recover, and the dimple flattened out. Ohio, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin rose out of the Leverett Sea. The broad estuary that led to the Gulf shrank to form the modern Mississippi.
The immediate reaction of many politicians and businessmen was to call for the classic remedies. They cried for tax cuts, a mammoth government make-work program, many more billions for old-age pensions and unemployment aid. All year long the Eisenhower Administration staunchly resisted temptations to buy its way out...
Some 15 minutes and 1.500 miles after the Jupiter soared into the sky, its nose cone plunged into the Atlantic off the West Indian island of Martinique. The cone had been fitted up with devices-automatically inflated float, flashing light, beeping radio transmitter, etc.-that had enabled Navy-Army task...
In fact, the Cup seemed safe enough for Australia this year. U.S. Kingpin Ham Richardson was far off his game, and Butch Buchholz was still a year or so away from top form. But Kramer is more of a threat to the Aussies as a promoter than a coach. If...
The first crime of the detective stories is that they can no longer hold even such a willing victim as Jacques Barzun in any suspense. Writers nowadays try to create suspense by merely delaying the story with digressions, or by causing the characters to become confused: " 'He had stopped...