Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pattern did not include the most revolutionary novelty; nuclear propulsion. It was still untried; indeed, it seemed far in the future, and the peacetime promotion system did not favor the quick rise of brilliant men with vision enough to prepare for the battles of the distant future...
...doing both heavy and delicate jobs under remote control, General Electric has built a monstrous, sensitive machine it calls "OMan" (for "overhead manipulator"). OMan is not beautiful; he looks like a Brobdingnagian dentist's drill. But he is a remarkable mechanical man. Obeying electric signals from a distant control console, he can lift 3,000 pounds off the floor and carry 1,000 pounds with a single arm extended horizontally. He can twist thick steel bars into pretzel shapes or tie them in knots. He can use power tools such as drills, hammers or wrenches and can assemble...
...little after noon one day last week, the scrub-pine forest that covers most of the military reservation at Fort Bragg, N.C. resounded to a distant roar. Soon the air trembled with it; across the bright blue sky rumbled 33 of the shiny, potbellied transport airplanes that the Air Force calls Flying Boxcars. The planes were low-at only a thousand feet-and in tight Vs of three. As they passed slowly over "Drop Zone Holland." a two-mile clearing in the dull green forest, they began spawning paratroopers...
Died. Edwin M. Fleischmann, 61, millionaire Maryland distiller (distant kin of the late gin and yeast heir Max Fleischmann), who in 1933 founded the Calvert Distilling Co., which later became part of Distillers Corporation-Seagrams; of cancer; in Baltimore...
...Appleton, White felt, and said he felt, marooned, and that his job was beneath his talents. He is remembered there as an excellent instructor but a distant, arrogant man who "thought the White opinion was the only opinion." No Marxist, he taught economics "as conservatively as Adam Smith," said one of his superiors. 'While there, he published his Harvard thesis, The French International Accounts 1880-1913, in book form. Its most interesting lines are in the acknowledgments. There is one to Dr. L. (for Lauchlin) B. (for Bernard) Currie, who read the manuscript...