Word: crafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along General Electric and Pratt & Whitney are in their work on nuclear power plants for the craft, the Defense Department is not saying. But the new contracts indicate that the troublesome weight problem-elaborate radiation protection is needed for the crews-may be whipped, or nearly so. Another sign: the Air Force plans to construct a multimilliondollar, 15,000-ft.-long runway at the National Reactor Testing Station near Idaho Falls, Idaho. Its probable use: testing of atom-powered aircraft...
...worth of long-range radars for 15 major Canadian airports from Moncton, N.B. to Vancouver. When the system is in operation in 1958, it will keep the headlong jets from 1) treading on each other's heels, 2) overrunning the slower, propeller-driven craft...
Penmanship. In Youngstown, Ohio, awaiting trial on two counts of forgery, Lorene Montgomery gave city detectives a demonstration of her craft, wrote two clearly legible signatures at once while holding one fountain pen in her mouth, another in the crook...
Still, in the Tyrones' journey into night, O'Neill has judged humanity and found beneath all its guilt the absolution of love. As the most personal and last published of the author's plays, Long Day's Journey Into Night is fitting tribute to his craft as a writer and his compassion as a human being...
...Manhattan, Hattie stirred up the natives with equal success. Wealthy women and celebrities flocked to her salon (among her clientele: Gertrude Lawrence, Clare Boothe Luce, Barbara Hutton, the Duchess of Windsor, Joan Crawford). Although several famed designers learned their craft in her workrooms, Hattie was never a designer in the strict sense. Her talent was for blue-penciling gowns, like an editor, and her critical decisions ("No, no, that sleeve is out I") were almost always right. The Carnegie foundation for a wardrobe-the "little Carnegie suit" became a basic garment for well-dressed women, and was later translated...