Word: diminish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...practice" in aerodynamics. The NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) proved years ago by wind-tunnel tests that the long, graceful wings of bombers are much less efficient above Mach 1 than clumsy-looking "stub" wings. As planes get faster, their wings will probably grow stubbier still until they diminish into something looking like an arrowhead...
Quite apart from more oats, Western European Socialists were jubilant to think that the U.S. was not "swinging right." In France, Socialists were already telling themselves that it was "a triumph for the international third force," that it would diminish the chances of General Charles de Gaulle returning to power (see FOREIGN NEWS). British Socialists were more cautious, but they thought it meant fewer strings attached to ECA aid. Undeterred by the downfall of other prophets, one prominent Laborite gleefully predicted: "This assures a Labor victory...
Cold Kiss. In London, the Medical Press rather reluctantly recommended a foreign custom to Britons: "The adoption of the French mode of kissing on both cheeks would diminish the prevalence of common colds...
...Berlin crisis had not brought war any nearer, in spite of the the heart-in-mouth atmosphere which prevailed at week's end in Washington, Paris, London and Berlin. The Russians also knew that the West was stronger and hoped that the West's advantage would diminish. If & when it diminished, Russia would have a better chance...
According to one theory, it was once part of a planet that blew up, and it came from the planet's stony crust but contained traces of the metallic core. A sample was air-expressed at once to the Institute before its radioactivity could diminish much. What it told about its life with the cosmic rays the Institute isn't saying in public...