Word: whole
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...shoreline for the first time in 135 years a perilous frontier. Even if both Russia and the U.S. began working on the H-bomb simultaneously, Russia would have a lead. It would have a lead because in the kind of war that might wipe out entire cities and whole armies at one surprise stroke, the U.S. would strike only if struck first. The element of surprise would always be Russia's monopoly. The tempting nakedness of America's great cities and the vulnerable concentration of her industrial plants also made the U.S. a more profitable target than Russia...
Thanks to the farm lobby and the flabby generosity of the U.S. Congress in its worship of the farm vote, U.S. potato growers were in the fat and the whole farm program was in the fire. The Department of Agriculture, set to administering a law it didn't like, had ordered potato acreage cut-but growers had simply moved their potato rows closer together, poured on the fertilizer and grown more spuds per acre. By pegging potato support prices high (currently at a top of $1.80 to $2.40 a hundredweight), the U.S. Government was stuck with 50 million bushels...
...trip will include a lecture on the "whys and wherefores" of Brandeis given by one of the university's leading founders, an open forum, a tea dance, and a conducted tour of the campus. Free bus transportation has been provided and the whole trip will last from...
This cancellation could be the beginning of a healthy reassessment of Harvard's whole football picture. You don't have to be too much of an expert to figure out that the Stanford game caused approximately 30 percent of last fall's injuries, or that the 44 to 0 licking hurt all season. The team was never the same after its horrendous western trip...
...most likely candidate for the post (out of some 30-odd St. Valentines listed in The Biographical Dictionary of Saints) is one M. Valentine. He was a Roman priest who loved brotherhood (and sisterhood), but unfortunately he lost his head over the whole matter on February 14 in either 269 or 278 A.D., depending on what book you look it up in. This explains why he became a martyr and did not die a natural death...