Word: bisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story headlined. SCIENTIST STUMBLES ON NEW METHOD. Back in the Chicago lab, Libby's assistants hit the ceiling, but regained their good humor and hung a plaque saying: "On this spot W. F. Libby, 40, stumbled (for three years) on the carbon 14 dating method." Age of Bison. Libby is a solemn, slow-spoken and serious man, and in his office at the AEC he seems weighed down, even a little awed, by the burdens of his position, where a single slip of the tongue may betray a national secret. But when carbon 14 is mentioned, he lights...
Recent pictures of new Russian bombers caused a flurry of speculation among engine experts. The Tupolev Bison, for instance, is about as big as the U.S. B-52. which has eight J57 jet engines, each rated at 10,000 Ibs. of static thrust (but capable of substantially more). But the Bison has only four engines, which led the experts to conclude that they must have at least 15,000 Ibs. of thrust...
Close study of the Bison's air intakes, which are 6 ft. in diameter, has convinced some experts that the new Russian engines are merely large, clumsy turbojets built on old principles and probably rather inefficient. Others draw a less comforting conclusion: that the large intakes point to bypass engines, a much discussed type that may prove ideal for long-range, high-speed bombers...
...week's end detachments of Indian riflemen and paratroopers with less friendly intent moved in on Dana territory. The headhunters offered a deal: to return each severed head for two wild bison, ten short swords and 60 yards of durable cloth...
...Bedford could, and often did, switch causes at the drop of an ideal. Having had enough of Bedford's muddled diatribes, the House of Lords once resolved that "the noble Duke no longer be heard." Ill at ease with most people, he often preferred the company of deer, bison and parakeets, was especially fond of spiders...