Word: jars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, the Americans bowed out of Strasbourg, leaving behind a blunt warning that U.S. taxpayers are getting tired of helping to finance quarrelsome, divided Europe. "The cookie jar has a bottom to it," said Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley. "We want action, not words." European delegates were left breathless, puzzled and more than a little annoyed. The Americans seemed unwilling to concede that, just as they themselves had semi-official status but did not speak for the U.S., so their fellow legislators represented countries but not governments...
...stocky man with blond hair walked slowly around the deserted dirt race track, assessing its surface with an expert eye, calculating the bank of its curves. He made a mental note of every hole and soft spot, the oil slicks, the mud clods that could jar a hot rubber tire whirling along at more than 100 m.p.h. Melvin E. ("Tony") Bettenhausen, the year's hottest U.S. driver, and possibly the best since Ralph de Palma, 35 years ago, was planning how to drive a race...
...sauntering innocently away from an opponent he has just maimed; the ground rushing up toward a runner who has been blocked once too often; a scattering of hired athletes at a fraternity dance, each as distinct from the eager fraters as if he were standing under a glass bell-jar...
While sending balloons into the air over Russia carrying messages of freedom, why not also attach some American-made Russian currency? Imagine the feeling of independence each Russian citizen would have if he were to become suddenly wealthy. Of course, Russia would have inflation, but it might jar loose a revolution. The beauty of my proposal is that Russia could not very well retaliate because they couldn't print our money any faster than we're spending it right...
...radar-controlled and skillfully handled. Americans strafing at low levels have been hit and sometimes forced down by a variety of missiles, including rifle and burp-gun bullets and grenades. In one low-altitude flight last week, an F80 pilot, returning to base, found the explanation for a jar he had felt on his strafing run: a large stone, thrown at him from the ground, had smashed into the leading edge of his left wing and stuck there...