Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Truce. In London the Tory Party's inner council reacted to news of Randolph's foray into Bournemouth like a military headquarters that has just learned of an enemy breakthrough. Party Chairman Lord Hailsham galloped off to Bournemouth posthaste. At week's end, in a tense, three-hour session with Bournemouth Tory leaders. Hailsham persuaded them to accept the hated Nigel Nicolson again, if a private postal poll shows that he would win a majority of the 7,500 Tory voters in the. constituency...
...potent than morphine and less likely to cause addiction, only to show, after careful trials, the same drawbacks as the invaluable but dangerous derivative of the opium poppy. Last week Secretary Arthur Flemming of Health, Education and Welfare got himself out on a limb by announcing as "an exciting breakthrough" the development of a new analgesic at the National Institutes of Health. Known so far only as NIH 7519, it appears, he said, to have "painkilling power at least ten times that of morphine." (By this phrasing, scientists do not mean that it can kill pain ten times as severe...
...metal is molybdenum, which melts at 4748° F., v. about 3000° F. in commonly used alloys. But making molybdenum castings was long impossible; its melting point is so high that it destroyed the crucible holding it. Last week the U.S. Bureau of Mines announced "a major metallurgical breakthrough"; it had succeeded in making molybdenum castings...
There was no magic revenue or cost breakthrough in the Eisenhower Administration's prospective balanced budget as Ike outlined it last week to Republican congressional leaders. It had come not by wave of the hand but by sweat of the brow. "There can be no real fiscal security in this country." said the President, "unless our fiscal policy is sound. Remember that." Items in the new budget...
...Radio Breakthrough. Radio astronomy, said Professor Lovell. promises to break this deadlock. Already the great radio telescopes can detect colliding galaxies (which give off powerful radio waves) at distances much greater than can be reached by an optical telescope. In a few years, improved vision should enable cosmographers to peer so far into space (or back into time) that they will be able to tell which kind of universe they are looking...