Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have crashed without nuclearexplosions-one between Dayton and Cincinnati, one at Travis Air Force Base near San Francisco, one near Albuquerque, and one over the St. Lawrence River in a midair accident in which the accident-proofed "nuc" was jettisoned safely without explosion-and quickly recovered by a search crew...
...press, which abounds in advice to readers on their physical, mental and marital symptoms, spurned their dental troubles until 1956 when a young (32), crew-cut Cincinnati dentist named Peter Garvin decided to fill the cavity. Three months after its first appearance in Columbus' Ohio State Journal (circ. 80,834), Dentist Garvin's column (title: "Your Teeth") was picked up by General Features Corp. and offered to newspapers across...
Behind the art extravaganza is crew-cut Lee Nordness, 33, a partner in a small Manhattan gallery called The Little Studio. Nordness first conceived of his grandiose plan last summer when a French art dealer gibed at him, "You Americans make your beautiful refrigerators and automobiles, and leave art to us." Then and there Nordness made up his mind that "what we need is a big, public show of contemporary American art, not only for the U.S. but for the world...
...director of General Electric's Research Laboratory; of a heart attack; in Schenectady. Drafted by G.E. from M.I.T. (where he developed the now accepted electrochemical theory of corrosion), Researcher Whitney set up the country's first industrial-research lab in a Schenectady barn, spurred on an alert crew of scientists (including William D. Coolidge, Irving Langmuir) to develop the modern electric-light bulb and turn out a wide assortment of major electronic discoveries...
Lightweight crew became the fourth sport within three years to gain major sport status. Wrestling was raised to a major sport in 1956, and tennis and squash were elevated last fall. Noting that this indicates a consistent trend, Junta stated that Yale has raised nearly every sport to the major sport level. Harvard promotes the sports only as they become deserving, he said. Junta predicted that "Sooner or later almost every sport will become a major sport...