Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...athletes from which it picked George Harold Sisler, at the start of a season when weakened eyes threatened his unprecedented career. Happily, First Baseman-Manager Sisler got things into focus: he hit .345, made TIME and the St. Louis Browns look good (though he was well below his best season: .420 in 1922). Since then, TIME has run up a good country batting average raising timely monuments for baseball's heroes. Joe DiMaggio was on the cover at the start of his major-league career; Cleveland's Bob Feller had almost all his fireballing years in front...
...with 2,000 times the total explosive power of World War II, took K.'s rocket-rattling with professional seriousness. SAC began to cut down the "reaction time" of its strike force-hundreds of bombers-from two hours to 15 minutes. This was the Air Force's best estimate of the warning SAC bases would get before an enemy missile strike (TIME, Nov. 25). If an "instant readiness" deterrent force was to be any deterrent at all, it had to be airborne before the threatening missiles could cripple it on the ground. Since then, SAC has learned...
Iceberg Peak. At week's end Hubert Humphrey, himself an advocate of inspected stop-the-tests, summed up: "We get conflicting testimony from equally competent witnesses on both sides and even within the Administration." And best evidence was that last week's testimony was only the visible iceberg peak of a classic inner-Administration argument as the Administration attempted to set a new cold-war balance between what Secretary of State Dulles and his advisers call "ponderables," i.e., military necessities, and "imponderables," i.e., propaganda to placate "world opinion...
...spent on the lower Potomac River near Hull Creek, Va. to build a harbor for 41 small boats and 42 skiffs. Army engineers tagged the job uneconomical; the Virginia state government, by failing to promise matching funds for half the cost, flunked what the President considers "the best test yet devised for insuring that a project is sound." So down came the veto on the whole bill, recession...
...secondary highways, provided instead that they should only pay 33¼%, and that the Federal Treasury should advance that. The Commerce Department had already leaked the word that the President would veto. But Senate G.O.P. Leader William Knowland and Vice President Richard Nixon warned that the bill was the best they could hope to get out of Congress this year, pointed out that the objectionable features would expire in one year. Eisenhower, trying to be reasonable about reasonableness, signed the bill into law, but added: "I would oppose any repetition of these or similar provisions in subsequent legislation...