Word: side
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Last Inch. The tapered, square-tipped wings, reaching for 45 ft. to either side of a slim 40-ft. fuselage, gave the U-2 the look of a high-performance sailplane. They suggest a range far beyond that circumscribed by the fuel supply. Editor Sekigawa, a glider pilot himself, speculated that the U-2 was built to climb under its own power, soar with its engine cut, for long, valuable miles in the thin upper atmosphere. Its Pratt & Whitney J57 turbojet engine could kick it along at speeds just under the speed of sound, and its light frame could almost...
...obligation, to withhold all mutual security funds from the United Arab Republic until the Suez Canal would again be open to Israeli shipping. The amendment posed no real threat to mutual security funds or to peace in the Middle East, but it was a sharp needle in the side of Arab nationalism and pride...
...Medicare "deserved study." House G.O.P. Leader and Budget Crusader Charlie Halleck admitted sadly that it was a "budget buster." Arizona's Barry Goldwater raised the cry of "socialized medicine," called the plan part of a "dime-store New Deal." The American Medical Association damned it from the one side as unnecessary, while the A.F.L.-C.I.O.-which has led the political crusade for the Forand bill-damned it from the other as political. New Jersey's Democratic Governor Robert Meyner called it "absolutely stupid," and New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller said that the states would have...
...biggest frogman in the metaphysical puddle was a great, eloquent, side-whiskered, doggedly handsome jumping jack of all intellectual trades called Thomas Henry Huxley. For a while, belief seemed to be a question of Genesis or The Origin of Species, Adam or ape, God or Darwin-and Evolutionary Biologist Huxley, as "Darwin's bulldog," was widely suspected of not being pro-God. For the line Huxley himself preferred to tread, a sort of high wire stretched between scientific fact and an unknowable God. he coined the word agnostic...
...Magician (Swedish). The magic of the 19th century Mesmer in the story, and of Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman on the other side of the camera, combine to make a film that is just about as hypnotic as it was meant...