Word: solidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Above all, it would delay the correction of the missile gap, because it would all but stop the U.S. development of nuclear warheads light enough to tip its second generation of solid-fuel missiles such as the Minuteman, Polaris and Nike-Zeus. (The Minuteman's warhead, for example, has never been tested...
...Cape Canaveral with a symmetrical gush of flame and climbed into the morning sky. Above the clouds, the second-stage rocket, the Able part of the act, took over and burned as scheduled. Unseen in space, four paddle-batteries sprang into position. At an altitude of 300 miles, the solid-propellant third stage fired and pushed its speed to 24,869 m.p.h...
...against the ice pushed in Sargo's sail, punched a pair of holes in its afterdeck, ripped out a plastic dome in its bow. Once the sub scraped within five feet of the ocean's bottom; another time it came within an ace of being frozen rock-solid...
...miracles: "Remember this-I've got some damn good horses." He has indeed. Guard Bob Cousy is basketball's finest little man (6 ft. 1 in., 175 lbs.). In his tenth season, Cousy is again leading the N.B.A. in play making (9.4 a game), averaging a solid 19.6 points and directing the fast break up the middle with near insolent skill. But the team is so well-balanced that it has no single outstanding high scorer. As many as four men may break 20 points, yet seldom does any one individual score more than 30. If the defense...
...Rarely have All-America selectors agreed so unanimously on the nation's finest college basketball players. The four solid choices: Cincinnati's record-scoring Oscar Robertson (6 ft. 5 in., 198 lbs.), West Virginia's driving, versatile Jerry West (6 ft. 3 in., 175 lbs.), Ohio State's precocious sophomore Jerry Lucas (6 ft. 7½ in., 228 lbs.), and California's defensive star Darrall Imhoff (6 ft. 10 in., 210 lbs.). Top alternates for the fifth position: St. John's brilliant but erratic Tony Jackson; St. Bonaventure's high-scoring Tom Stith...