Word: airtight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...avert such misadventures, the Air Force uses a "partial pressure suit" made like a skintight union suit of strong, greenish material, with an airtight helmet. When the cabin air pressure falls too low, an automatic valve shoots oxygen into the helmet at about ten Ibs. pressure per square inch. It also inflates rubber bladders along the wearer's limbs and body, making the suit even tighter. This enables the man to breathe and keeps gas bubbles from forming in his blood. He stays conscious longer and has a chance to bring his damaged plane down to inhabitable...
...nearly five years Williams has rocked the country again & again with scandals in the Bureau of Internal Revenue. He is no sensation monger. He carefully waits until he thinks his case is airtight, then submits it to the man or the office he is about to attack, promising to print any denial or rebuttal in the Congressional Record along with his charge. Williams says he has never made an accusation of crime that has not been followed by an indictment. He works alone (his only "investigator" is a girl secretary). Many of his leads have been picked up and developed...
...return for his investment, Sachs got 1) 400,000 shares of common stock, 2) a chance to boss the reorganized company† as president, and 3) a suit from protesting stockholders. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court tossed out their protest, made Sachs's legal command of Waltham airtight...
...Vegas, Benny Binion had an airtight alibi...
...Eighth Army last week clamped an airtight censorship on all news from Korea. Colonel R. L. Thompson, Major General Matthew Ridgway's information boss, issued 1,600 words of regulations that forbade correspondents to describe armament and equipment, discuss the Army's "strength, efficiency, morale," identify troops by unit or location, or even to mention the presence of U.S. troops in any sector until the enemy knew it. Dispatches not only had to be "accurate in statement and in implication" but so written as not to "injure the morale of our forces or our allies and . . . not embarrass...