Word: blur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five seconds that they burned, they accelerated the sled with a force of 7½ to 9 Gs,* pressing him back against the sea with 7½ to 9 times the weight of his body For about 2½ seconds he could see the track as a racing blur. Then his vision narrowed and blacked out altogether. Since he did not lose consciousness, he knew that the Gs had drained the blood out of his eyeballs, but not out of his brain...
...women who cross his path. "Ah don't scare easily," says Stainless, "but the word matrimony jest turns mah spine to jelly." His generosity often leads to trouble. For the past two months Stainless has been acting as the target for a knife-throwing TV star named Hazie Blur-Blur who cannot see without glasses but is too vain to wear them all the time. Stainless took the job after her other partner quit, because Hazie told him that she would lose a $1,000,000 inheritance she intended to use to build a playground, if she discontinued...
...very fact that what is called "McCarthyism" is a rather elusive blur gives it a capacity to suffuse a whole national policy. As one U.S. diplomat describes it: "It is a kind of smog, discoloring all our purposes. In the thousand little things that go to make up diplomatic success or failure, it just suffices to keep the U.S. from getting the benefit of the doubt in the minds of so many. And serious decisions that often in history look so solid really amount to just that-winning the benefit of the doubt...
...businessmen, the very word "fringe", coined during the easy-money, cost-plus days of World War II, is a "semantic blur." To clear up the blur, Fisher and Chapman list 28 fringe payments, which they define as money costs and employment benefits outside direct wage payments for regular hours. These, ranging from such familiar items as pensions to "pamper extras" such as swimming pools (TIME, Sept. 13), now cost' American business 43? to 44? extra per productive hour. This adds up to a national total exceeding $25 billion...
...living." "That's all right; she didn't bark"). And the quarter-truths in Richard L. Breen's screenplay ("Why does the law always work for the guilty?" "Because the innocent don't need it") zip by so fast and frequently that sometimes they almost blur into an honest statement...