Word: cushion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this second proposition, it may be that the quality and strength of our political agreement has not yet been convincingly tested. We still hear talk in some Republican circles about the inflationary effect of full employment, and the corresponding advantages of four or five million unemployed to cushion upward pressures on the price level...
...quanto-gravitetic hyperdrive, is more than a year out from Earth Base on a special mission to the planetary system of Alpha Aquilae. As it approaches the Planet Altair-4, it changes flux, reverses polarity, sits down gently as great hairy bolts of blue electricity spray out to cushion the landing. Gangways flip down; scouts run out. The sky is green, the surrounding desert an odd shade of pink. Suddenly a big. black robot drives up, addresses the commander (Leslie Nielsen) in cultured English, invites him to visit the planet's only human inhabitant, a mad scientist (Walter Pidgeon...
Contact with the staff is easy and informal. Whether one is playing billiards with the master (Professor Taylor is seeded sixth in the House three-cushion tournament and fourth in straight billiards) or eating a dinner with a tutor, one is hardly aware of the thin line which separates faculty from students...
Lausche smoothly broke his own record a year ago, when he was inaugurated (with a cushion of 212,000 votes) as Ohio's first fifth-term governor...
Died. Johnny Layton, 68, famed billiards champion of the '20s and '30s, seven-time winner (1920-22, 1928-30, 1934) of the world three-cushion title, winner (in 1916) of the world pocket-billiards title; of a heart ailment; at a rooming house in St. Louis...