Word: albatross
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...Albatross. Behind this administrative schizophrenia (a word put in the campaign by Democratic Candidate Stevenson) lies a serious tactical problem for the Democrats. The Administration realizes that inflation, the high and heightening cost of everything, will be an issue when the voters go to the polls Nov. 4. The Administration wants to take the issue from around the Democrats' neck and hang it on the Republicans'. Putnam and Brannan did not agree with Arnall on how that should be done...
...just finished what she hoped would be her greatest artistic triumph, Tiefland, in 1945, when the Allied victory put a stop to her film production. Since then, Adolf's admiration has hung on her neck like the Mariner's albatross. Through one denazification court after another, Leni has fought off her past. Time & again she has been cleared of Nazi guilt, only to be rearrested and retried. Last week, in a final effort to regain her fair name-and the fashionable Berlin villa taken from her by the Allies-Leni appeared before still another court. Its verdict...
Last week the research ship Albatross of the Woods Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic Institute returned from a 22,000-mile Atlantic cruise with new information about the Gulf Stream obtained by a gadget called the Geomagnetic Electrokinetograph. GEK is a steel box full of vacuum tubes which analyzes electrical information from two electrodes trailed behind the ship. When the ship is swung 90° in one direction and then 180° in the other direction, the electrodes interact with the earth's magnetic field and so measure the motion of the water in relation to the sea's bottom...
...most charts the speed of the Gulf Stream is given as about one knot. After making 1,200 GEK readings, the scientists on the Albatross decided that the stream has been underrated. Between Cape Hatteras and the Grand Bank, it often flows as fast as four or five knots. It also squirms erratically through the Atlantic. Ships steaming through it are sometimes moving with the current and sometimes against it. So their navigators put the average speed of the stream much...
...Capitol corridors were charged with political tension. "Wait until we get Acheson," the more partisan-minded Republicans had crowed in every cloakroom, as the Administration paraded its military witnesses. Waiting for him in Room 212, Acheson had few defenders: almost to a man, the Democrats considered him a political albatross around their necks. Chairman Richard Russell, who had introduced each preceding witness with a resounding recitation of his achievements, contented himself with a brief comment that Acheson had been Secretary "during one of the most trying periods" in U.S. history...