Word: aloft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York speech, carrying a U.S. pledge to defend the offshore islands if they were invaded as part of an assault on Formosa, seemed to flatly contradict Eden's hopes that Dulles was coming to agree that the islands should be given up. In Britain, while Eden was aloft on the way to Bangkok, the Labor Party was giving the government a rough time. "The danger of war in the Far East arises not from Chinese but from American aggression," cried Bevanite Harold Wilson. "Surely it is clear by now that peace will not be insured until Chiang Kai-shek...
...passenger-cargo ships to be built under the new program will have a radical look. Among the proposals: a freightliner, with all cargo forward, all decks and staterooms aft; a multidecked patio around the swimming pool to give inside staterooms an outside view; a picture-windowed cocktail lounge perched aloft in the streamlined main stack. Each ship will carry at least 100 passengers and have space for 500,000 cu. ft. of cargo, and will be plying American President's round-the-world trade routes...
...National Airport, two tall and solid-looking men stood chatting volubly in German. At departure time the two shook hands and murmured "auf wiedersehen." Then Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab entered the plane. His companion, State Department Protocol Officer John Farr Simmons, waited at the gate until the plane was aloft; then he turned and hurried back to his desk at the State Department...
...bomb exploding in a harbor and drenching a city with "hot" spray) there was little to fear from radioactivity. The bomb's initial burst of gamma rays affected few people. If the bomb exploded high in the air (the approved position), its radioactive fission products were carried aloft and dissipated in the upper atmosphere. When they sifted down thousands of miles away, they could be detected by sensitive instruments, but their activity was far too weak to damage human wellbeing...
...horror-comic publishers announced he was stopping publication of the books in response "to appeals by American parents." Entertaining Comics Publisher William M. Gaines had been a star witness before the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency. He had insisted his comic-book cover of an ax-wielding man holding aloft the severed head of a blonde was "in good taste, [but] would be in bad taste if the head were held a little higher so the neck would show blood dripping out." Gaines last week stopped his own flow of 2,000,000 horror comics a month, plans to substitute...