Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...block wedge of Moscow real estate where Vice President Nixon and Soviet Premier Khrushchev held their spectacular verbal fencing matches last week is a wonder of U.S. planning, talent and do-it-yourself ingenuity. Conceived four years ago, the American exhibition in Moscow was not finally approved by the Kremlin until last December, and the fact that it was ready to open on schedule marked some sort of speed record for major international expositions...
...Spinal Block. In Milan, Italy, while hard at work during an operation, Anesthetist Francesco Aimale was out cold for an hour after a light fixture fell on him from the ceiling...
Goalkeeper. The U.S.'s block-that-tax-boost, hold-those-prices mood went far toward explaining Washington's most remarkable phenomenon of 1959: the triumph of President Eisenhower's balanced-budget goal, despite the spending plans that Democrats brought with them when Congress convened last January. Back then, with Democrats showing the flush of November victory and the economy still showing traces of pallor, some of the President's own advisers warned that a balanced budget would be out of keeping with the trend and temper of the times...
...high, and it bursts like a bomb. Very slight defects or miscalculations can raise the pressure to the danger point. The rocket can explode if the nozzle is a few thousandths of an inch too small. A solid propellant may crack, sharply increasing the burning rate. Unburned propellant can block the nozzle, or flame can burn a hole in the thin casing. As any Cape Canaveral man knows, not even the pros can anticipate all possible ways for the rocket's restrained explosion to become unrestrained. Their motto: "Always assume that a rocket will explode...
...plane and screamed, "Air raid!" The pupils dropped to the floor as the plane grazed the schoolhouse roof, showered glass on the children, spewed flaming gasoline on an older school building next door, and blew up with a roar that sent burning wreckage raining through a ten-block area of flimsy wood-and-paper houses...