Word: clusters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well out of the friendship: in 1932 the bank lent the Mexican government $10 million and in 1936 Richardson married a Mexican girl, now has two children. He owns a handsome home in the fashionable suburb of Coyoacan, has filled it with a collection of art treasures and a cluster of warm friends. When he an nounced, to no one's surprise, that he would remain in Mexico as an investment counselor, his feelings for his adopted country broke through his customary reserve. "The country is dynamic," he said with deep feeling. "No one can stop...
...nights the loudspeaker blared its message in Swahili, but its only answer was the rustle of the forest and the sounds of the beasts. Finally, the Rev. William Wellesley Devitt and his nine native companions picked up their gear and returned to Kijabe (Place of the Wind), where a cluster of grey stone buildings clings to a cliff 7,000 ft. above the valley...
...cluster of patients, nurses and passers-by had just seen for itself what news bulletins soon began to tell the rest of the nation: Ike is fine...
...what prevailed over these misgivings was a universal feeling that NATO needs a new lift to face a changing world. It may not be the best combination of nations for its new tasks, but it is the only cluster of Western powers that has real meaning for the European public: it represents to Europeans the one place where they have sworn their vows of fealty to the West, and, just as important, the one place where the U.S. has by solemn treaty pledged to them its strength and support...
Throttled Rocket. Most rocket motors are all-or-nothing performers. They give good performance at one thrust level only. The Bell X-1 (first airplane to pass the speed of sound) was pushed by a cluster of four small rockets, and it gained a measure of control because the pilot could shut some of them off. The Bell X-2 (already under secret test) has a two-rocket Curtiss-Wright power plant, can vary its thrust, by methods undisclosed, over a considerable range...