Word: dime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cape Canaveral missile test center. Hoisted aboard Escape, the recovered cone proved that the Army had solved both the reentry problem and the accuracy problem. Hitting the target area at a range of 1,600 miles was a feat of marksmanship considerably more remarkable than nicking a dime with a rifle...
...pullet's egg, banty egg; walnut, English walnut, hulled walnut, hull of walnut, pecan acorn, unhulled walnut; grain of corn, few grains of maize, bean, navy bean, pea, lentil seed, soup bean; orange, small orange, lemon, small lemon, lime, grapefruit, half grape, melon, dried prune, stuffed olive; dollar, dime, nickel, quarter, half a dollar, dollar and a half; saucer, dinner plate; pencil point, BB shot; third of a baseball, football-sized mass, volley ball; fist, hand, thumb, child's fist, man's head, baby's head...
...Dime-a-Dance." Perhaps the best economic news of the week was evidence of basic agreement between responsible Republicans and Democrats in Washington. The agreement was hidden by a barrage of partisanship touched off by Harry Truman's blast at the Administration's stony-hearted attitude toward the recession. Republicans replied in kind, waving at Harry such red-flag terms as "dime-a-dance oratory" and "typical Truman claptrap." Even the President joined in the counterattack. "The economy of this country is a lot stronger than the spirit of those people that I see wailing about...
Plans for voyaging to the moon are a dime a dozen, but according to Astronomy Professor Jan Schilt of Columbia University, they are all aimed at the wrong moon. Last week he explained why man's first round trip to an extraterrestrial body may be to one of the moons of Mars...
...much of anything. "I am a member of the board of the Fund for Adult Education of the Ford Foundation. In the last six years we have given away $29 million . . . Not a single Catholic program of liberal adult education has, so far as I can remember, received a dime. This has been due, not to bigotry, but to the fact that there has not been one request made which meets the reasonable conditions that the Fund lays down...