Word: developing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stassen's words, which everyone accepted, and the AEC's plan to develop bigger & better weapons, which everybody accepted too, was the kind of dilemma that ringed the U.S. these days, from every direction. The dilemma could only be solved by a paradox, by a miracle, by finding the moral equivalent of the atomic bomb...
John had yet to develop such poise. Once John became so fascinated with the Utah scenery that he borrowed three rolls of film from a news photographer, ran them through his Brownie. When the photographer refused to lend him any more, John let go a disappointed yell. The Governor had to restore order...
...taken eight years of costly singing lessons to develop the Damone style. "There's been times the family went without spaghetti to pay for them," says Vic. The family began to get its spaghetti back in 1945, when Lou Capone,* a 34-year-old Brooklyn olive oil importer, heard Vic sing. Capone promptly left his business (olive oil was hard to come by, anyway, during the war) and gave his full time to managing Vic. He spent $3,000 just to make Vic's audition records...
Since nobody except a poet (Richard Basehart) takes at all seriously Miss Leslie's efforts to stave off the inevitable, her second chance does her little good. Some of her struggling in the emotional meshes is fairly interesting, and a certain tension does develop as the clock crawls for the second time to midnight of Dec. 31; but the picture is garnished with so much ham and ineptitude that it hardly seems worth the bother...
Great Expectations. According to the present schedule, the Neptune will not be fired until late in 1948. But the designers know now, theoretically, about what the rocket will do. The jet will develop a maximum thrust of about 11½ tons. This will last for 75 seconds, raising the rocket (with a minimum pay load of 100 lbs.) to 38 miles above the earth. Then it will coast upward to 237 miles before its momentum is exhausted. Its greatest speed coming down will be 8,200 ft. per second (4,833 m.p.h.). Maximum pay load: one ton. The Navy does...