Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keynote to the President's press conference was his insistence that the satellite is a scientific, not a defense, instrument (see box, opposite). On that basis, the U.S. was already committed to putting some $110 million into a U.S. moon. But basic missile research and development would continue to get priority over satellite work in U.S. defense spending. It was in this sense that President Eisenhower said flatly: "So far as the satellite itself is concerned, that does not raise my apprehensions, not one iota...
Once the NSC reached the decision to box off Project Vanguard, it made sense to let the Navy take charge: in experimenting with its Vikings and Aerobees, the Navy had pushed a lot farther ahead in high-altitude-missile research than either the Army or the Air Force...
...Cezanne; some are even reported to be secretly painting abstractions. If so, no samples were shown at the current exhibition. Instead, there were conscientious sketches of oil derricks, streaking red jets, power lines, blast furnaces, and a young Soviet woman standing fast with a lantern by a railroad switch box...
Radcliffe students heard of the new policy with consternation, as many girls foresaw long lines waiting for books. Some students armed with box lunches, plan to spend most of the day in the lines in order to get the books they want...
...dangerously near to it." But it was only with Dylan dead and buried in his Welsh village of Laugharne ("this Godforsaken, Dylan-shared, vanishing dip in the hills") that Caitlin was possessed by the enormity of her loss, and wanted "to ferret down to that long locked cold box, and burst it apart . . . to mangle him with my strong bones, mingle, mutilate the two of us together, till the dead and the living would be desired...