Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Spring came-and greeting it along a wide Atlantic Coast belt was the most disastrous, dispiriting snowstorm of all (see The Weather). Foul March weather, climaxed by last week's crushing blow, was almost certain to cause snowbound distortions in the seasonal economic figures, move back the expected upturn by as much as a month. Now the Administration needed still more time to examine the economy before moving toward an antirecession tax cut or an all-out public-works program. On March 21, the day Washington had so anxiously awaited, a top Administration economist gazed...
...said flatly that, in this case, "the maximum distance" was 250 miles. But the Disarmament Subcommittee, chaired by Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey, found out from the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey that its seismographs picked up tremors as far away as Alaska. Prodded by the subcommittee, the AEC corrected itself, announced that the explosion was detected at College, Alaska, 2,300 miles from the blast site...
...Britain subjugated the Gold Coast, it was also Britain that transformed the Gold Coast from a geographical expression into a nation; if Englishmen grew rich off Malaya, they also introduced to Malaya the rubber and tin industries that lifted it out of a feudal economy, gave its inhabitants their first glimpses of the economic well-being they are now demanding as an underdeveloped nation...
Able, urbane Don Yates has so far kept contractors, military services and unions happy, for the one unifying force at Cape Canaveral is a widespread epidemic of missile fever. In nearby Cocoa Beach, and in towns up and down the coast, missilemen and their families have infected the whole populace with the fever. In motels, bars and restaurants, the prevailing talk is rocketry, its failures and its triumphs. One restaurant is fitting out its roof garden with telescopes; sons of missilemen are shooting their own miniature rockets; a ladies' luncheon club has dubbed itself the Missile Misses...
...less volcanic, Ingrid first visited Schmidt's family, then, badly concealed behind dark glasses, high boots and a flat cap, and hugged around her chin by a scarf, she went off for a quiet weekend with Lars in a wooden summer cottage on a Swedish West Coast island. "I love that little island," purred Ingrid, who had once been enchanted by another idyllic island, Stromboli. Asked whether a marriage was in the making, Bachelor Schmidt replied: "We can neither deny nor confirm that," but the couple announced that they would spend their summer together on what local wits...