Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although some Cambridge citizens assert that the rats--or whatever they are--come from the Charles, some have suggested that they come from Boston, where demolition of buildings is taking place. "At any rate," Vellucci said, "we should find out, and curb what threatens to a bigger problem...
...protest against what's going on in civil rights." Democratic State Chairman Eugene Wyman admits that "it's going to be a tough fight. The people who support Goldwater have got the fervor, the religion, and as a result they are going to mount a much bigger volunteer effort than Republicans ever did before...
Three-Foot Craters. The last pictures snapped as the spacecraft sped toward the surface showed smaller and smaller craters, some of them sharp-edged pits blasted by the explosive effect of high-velocity meteors, some of them soft-edged secondary craters dug by low-speed debris from bigger impacts. The very last shot was taken when Ranger was about 1,000 ft. above the surface, and before impact the scanning beam had time to transmit only a part of it-an area 60 ft. by 100 ft. There, sharp and clear, were tiny craters no more than 3 ft. across...
Frozen Foods & Baby Sitters. Economists discern significant turns in the way the 92? goes out. Naturally, consumers still think first of food, clothing and shelter, but the manner in which they think of them has changed. As they grow more affluent, Americans are buying steadily bigger and better homes. They eat 117 Ibs. less food a year than their fathers, but are spending $232 a year more for it. This is not so much because prices have risen but because consumers nowadays show a weight-conscious preference for green vegetables over starchy potatoes and a gour met's delight...
...Comet1 jetliner. With all the Comets grounded as unsafe until 1958, BOAC concentrated on Britannia turboprops, at the government's insistence buying only British planes. By the time the Britannias were flying the all-important North Atlantic run in 1958, competing airlines had already taken off in the bigger, faster, U.S.-made long-range pure jets. Eventually BOAC got permission to buy 20 Boeing 707s-but only on the condition that it order at least 20 of the new VC-10 jets developed by British Aircraft Corp...