Word: dray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the well-blasted concrete beach at Cape Canaveral, Fla. last week rose the U.S.'s latest contribution to the heavens: a 38.43-lb. instrument assembly called Explorer IV. For the Army's dependable ballistic dray horse, Jupiter-C, which has failed only once in four tries, this was a milk-run space delivery-but on a new route. All other U.S. satellites were launched toward the equator to take advantage of the earth's 1,000-m.p.h. spin. Explorer IV soared northeast along the New England coast, into a looping orbit which will span more...
...fund. They would cut benefits, however, from the present minimum of 55 and maximum of 85 dollars a month to a flat 25 dollars given without consideration of past salary or length of employment. Money to pay the benefits would be drawn from the trust fund until it was dray, then obtained by general taxation. But 25 dollars is a ridiculously small amount--hardly enough for subsistence; more important, the blanket extension covering all the aged, destroys one of Social Security's basic principles: you don't get something for nothing, and the more you produce, the more you will...
...executed his really important exploits. There was, for instance, the diligent excavation on Holliday Hill (the Cardiff Hill of the books) that freed at last the great boulder which, as Sam and a friend gazed in ecstasy, shot down the slope, scattered a woodpile, leaped over a passing dray and wrecked a cooper's shop-at which point the boys felt a call from elsewhere, and went there...
...formal and flattering. But those he had dashed off on his travels showed a masterly touch. In a few confident strokes of smooth color, Bedikian could re-create the patient labor of a Capri fisherman's life, the lazy alertness of street urchins, the sag of a dray horse pulling a heavy load. Since Painter Bedikian still lacks the official critical accolade, his pictures were selling at the relatively modest average of 90,000 francs (about...
...fusing two unrelated phrases and turning the viceregal carriage into a dray, to TIME'S imperthnthn editor, an Emily-colored blush...