Word: thrusting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Derick Heathcoat Amory, 59, Chancellor of the Exchequer. A tall, angular bachelor who has served ably in several ministries (Pensions, Board of Trade, Agriculture), Heathcoat (pronounced hethcut) Amory never appears to seek power, but is ready and willing when it is thrust upon him. Many British pols believe that he will eventually make his muted, diffident way to the Prime Ministry itself, but his age, even more than Rab Butler's, is against him. For the present he will probably keep his job at the Treasury...
...Henry had liked coffee for breakfast, there would have been no agon. If not for his fateful passion for fruit juice, Harkness Commons would never have been darkened by the dragon-wing of history. Henry's greatness was thrust upon him. All he wished to do was to exchange his breakfast coffee (his legal right by contract) for a second fruit juice...
...anniversary by announcing a far more advanced step into space: a rocket shot that this week sent a 600-lb. instrumented payload hurtling into space on a trajectory calculated to curve around the moon and swing back toward the earth. The moon probe (see SCIENCE) required a rocket thrust of at least 600,000 Ibs., twice the thrust of the U.S.'s most powerful rocket engine. The Soviet feat was all the more embarrassing to the U.S. because U.S. spacemen had been forced to postpone their moon shot, scheduled to soar on or near Sputnik I's second...
...long-40 ft. more than the 6-52-has six General Electric J-93 engines (better than 150,000 Ibs. thrust) in its peacocklike tail; they can be simultaneously hot-started for takeoff in less than five minutes. The plane will cruise above 70,000 ft. at 1,700 knots, three times the speed of sound. Its range, without refueling, is more than 6,000 miles; it could carry 80 passengers or a load of Honest John missiles from Maine to Cairo in less than three hours. Its four-man crew sits in a "shirtsleeve environment," wears no helmets, chutes...
Five Memorials. Wingate's Burma raiders were called the Chindits (a mispronunciation of the Burmese chinthé, lion), and in their first thrust against the Japanese they lost 800 out of 3,000 men. His second Chindit campaign began far more successfully, but no one will ever know how it would have developed. Early in the operation, Wingate was killed in the crash of a U.S. plane. Military men still argue the value of Wingate's tactical ideas. The U.S. borrowed them for Merrill's Marauders (TIME, April 30) with equally inconclusive results. In this able...