Word: drift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rolling wide into the turns, he would sweep to the inner edge of the track, then drift wide again as he blasted out into the brief straightaways. Each lap he picked up precious seconds. At 8 in the evening, Hawthorn's Jag coasted into the pits. "Brakes!" said the disgusted driver; the sleek grey car was through...
...most propitious undergraduate preparation. Since medical schools urge a broad liberal arts background, and at the same time narrowly inspect grades in science, hopefuls cast about for the easiest way of satisfying these two divergent demands. Some of the more daring concentrate in non-honors in English, but most drift quietly into either Biology or Biochemistry. Both of these allow considerable freedom to take courses in outside fields, yet give the premed the comforting feeling that he can throw most of his energies into his science courses. A recently-proposed plan to exclude non-honors concentrators from Biochemistry would narrow...
...wily Japanese tactic in World War II was to launch balloons carrying small explosive or incendiary bombs in the hope that they would drift across the Pacific and land in the U.S. Some of them actually did land in the Pacific Northwest, and although they caused almost no damage, they proved that the westerly winds at high altitude are fine balloon carriers. Last week the U.S. Navy was following the Japanese lead by launching balloons of plastic film from Oppama, Japan. Instead of bombs the balloons carried instruments to report weather conditions encountered on their long voyages...
...Yardling's managing editor blamed lack of interest on the fact that most would-be freshman journalists try out for the CRIMSON and that many of those interested at the beginning of the year drift off into other extra-curricular activities...
...himself before the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry one morning last week, radiating ease and self-assurance. Three days earlier, President Eisenhower had sent to the Congress an 8,000-word farm program designed to reduce the country's agricultural commodity surpluses and to end the down-drift in farm income. The President had held firmly to Benson's principle of flexible price supports, making no concessions to those-including Democratic Candidate Adlai Stevenson-who advocate rigid high price supports...