Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...temperature (about 2,000°-3,000° C.) just below that of the reactor, expands enormously, and blows out of the nozzle in a high-speed jet. Hydrogen is essential because its molecules are the smallest known, and the smaller the molecules in a gas jet the bigger its propulsive push...
...years ago, Lawyer Joseph, 29, would have had scant prospects of winning his case. But in Illinois, as in most other states of the U.S., the past few years have seen a striking trend in favor of the plaintiff in damage suits, with ever bigger awards and ever broader liability. Such charitable institutions as churches have been held liable to the extent of having to pay damages out of their previously sacrosanct trust funds. The trend has even shaken the old common-law principle that a government entity is immune from damage claims as long as it stays within...
Hinting at bigger game, his landlady introduces him to Isaak and Mara Sapphir. A wealthy Egyptian Jew, Isaak is paunchy, balding and married-but not to Mara. She is his Polish mistress, and pregnant. A homeless refugee, she wants to bear her baby in New York as a U.S. citizen. For going through with a temporary marriage that gives Mara the chance to become an American, Isaak offers the painter $3,200, a new wardrobe, and all travel expenses...
...Commonwealth over which Elizabeth II presides is bigger, richer and more populous than that fabulous Empire welded together by the strong-willed ministers of her great-great-grandmother. Victoria. Born of a snug union of Britain and Dominions of European stock, it now has hundreds of millions of brown, black and yellow men. It covers one quarter of the earth's land mass, contains one-fourth of the world's people, and carries on within its confines one-third of the world's trade...
...have a teacher yelling every minute, 'No, get your heels down,' the muscles in your calves stay long and supple." The north half of Shirley's body, she admits, "is not exactly Marilynish. In the movies and on TV, they always try to make me look bigger. But if I augment myself up there, people won't notice my legs, and my legs are supposed to be very nice...