Word: hatched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their watches in the eerie green glow of instrument lights. The prison silence was broken only by the whir of a generator, the purr of a hydraulic pump, the leaky-faucet sound of water trickling down the packing gland of the periscope barrel. The sub broke water, the bridge hatch swung open, the skipper and his lookouts scrambled topside. There they began the countdown required before launching a 1,000-mile Regulus-type missile. The sub rocked quietly, like a metronome. After precisely 15 minutes came the fire command. A light flashed skyward, headed northwest-in the direction of Washington...
...last week's Cabinet meeting. President Eisenhower and Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson were all for a flat, unhedged stand against tax cuts. Others, including Vice President Richard Nixon and Labor Secretary James Mitchell, argued for an escape hatch by promising continuous review and possible reconsideration if the recession worsens...
...Fish and Wildlife Service (we know what they do to trout when they get the chance) that some things are sacred and that Josephine, for one, should be able to stand by her rights. That is, Josephine should sit one, her own eggs. She laid them, she should hatch them. Better the species should perish than Josephine should be denied the full satisfactions of motherhood...
...nationwide congressional preference, but toward midsummer, resentment against a rash of crippling strikes by labor unions turned the tide. That November, Republicans captured a majority of 246 House seats in the 80th Congress, even though Democrat Harry Truman was in the White House. Gallup's 1958 escape hatch: with a summer business upturn, congressional history might possibly repeat itself...
...LEONARD HATCH Eastern Baptist College St. Davids...