Word: type
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Ambassador Alan G. Kirk was summoned to the Kremlin, heard Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky personally charge the U.S. with "an unheard-of violation of the elementary rules of international law." On the day of the Privateer's flight, a "four-engined military plane of the B-29 type" (the Privateer is actually a single-tailed Navy version of the old B-24 Liberator) had flown 13 miles across the Soviet coastline near the Latvian harbor of Liepaja, said Vishinsky. Soviet fighters had swept up in challenge and ordered the U.S. plane to land at a Russian airport. Instead...
...week's end, only one scrap of evidence had been picked up in the Baltic-an empty yellow life raft of the type issued to Navy patrol bombers. This week, the U.S. charged that the Russians shot down the plane over open waters and demanded indemnity for the dead American flyers. But it was a sign of U.S. awareness of the incidental perils of cold war, that there were no shouts for any hot fighting to begin...
Author Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep), master of the hard-guy school of crime fiction, openly sneered (in the Saturday Review of Literature) at those who prefer the too-too refined type of whodunit ("That charming Mrs. Jones-whoever would have thought she would cut off her husband's head with a meat saw? And such a handsome...
After asking advice from eminent friends, Boyer decided that a creative scientist must be "an all-round man, not a narrow specialist . . . This type of man is the one best able to leap barriers between fields, to borrow techniques, to synthesize new concepts." Besides many-sidedness, the productive researcher should have "the ability to see the relationship between apparently unrelated facts, the ability to appreciate the significance of the unobvious." He should have "intense curiosity combined with intense skepticism." His motivating force should be "the esthetic satisfaction he obtains in bringing order out of chaos...
...training offered will not be on a professional level since all the type will be hand set. Because the library is bearing the major cost of operation, students will not be allowed to sell their handiwork...