Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...testing a nose cone for Jupiter, the Huntsville team kept going on Jupiter-C. Actually Jupiter-C-a bundle of rockets beefing up the Army's Redstone-was hardly kin to the sophisticated, sleek Jupiter itself. But while other services hooted at its "brute-force approach" to space, Jupiter-C once flew 3,500 miles, once carried the test Jupiter nose cone into space and back again; President Eisenhower displayed the recovered nose cone in his first television speech after Sputnik. The Army missilemen never for an instant lost sight of Jupiter-C as a satellite vehicle in case...
This "pinch effect" is the most promising approach to thermonuclear power, but unfortunately the pinched current wriggles so violently that it tends to slam in millionths of a second against the walls of its container. The trick, a difficult one, is to make it stand still as long as possible and not touch the walls...
Director Clair. now 59, does not everywhere rise to his subject (taken from a novel by René Pallet), and at no point does he approach the artistic altitudes he reached in the '20s. But he works with a degree of taste that few moviemakers can rival, and perhaps as well as any humorist alive he achieves an exquisite thing: he laughs at life but not at people...
Part of living with the man is knowing how to approach him: Hagerty remembers that the President once told him: "When I was a young major in the Philippines, I worked for a general [Douglas MacArthur] with strong opinions. But when I felt it was my duty to argue, I never hesitated." Today, when Hagerty feels it his duty to argue, he asks the President: "Do you remember that young major?" Sighs Dwight Eisenhower: "Yeah. What...
...Begging Bowls. As an administrator, Khalil is among Africa's best. His budgets are balanced, and any surplus has been applied to development projects. Visiting Western moneymen have been impressed by Khalil's insistence on a pay-as-you-go approach to loans, his refusal to ask for more aid than the nation can repay. "The Sudanese," said one admiring U.S. official, "are not holding out any begging bowls...