Word: enoughs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...breathing missiles-Snark, Navaho, Regulus, etc.-that were inherently useless for space work. Meanwhile, the Russians were pushing ahead with ballistic missiles. By 1953, when a team of U.S. physicists headed by the late Hungarian-born John von Neumann devised a way of making a thermonuclear warhead small enough to be delivered by a ballistic missile of economic size, the Russians had a long head start in ballistic-missile development...
...only hanger-back was France's Charles de Gaulle, who, skeptical as ever, was suggesting that Moscow still had not offered enough evidence that a Big Four meeting would be productive. But even De Gaulle did not oppose the summit in principle: his argument was that it should be delayed until after Ike's trip to Russia next spring...
Thus, a swing to the Tories of a small fraction of the British electorate in marginal constituencies was enough to jump their Commons majority from 53 to 100 seats. Liberals, on the strength of their 1,600,000 popular vote, forecast with eager optimism that they would soon succeed Labor as the chief opposition party -a prediction that overlooked the fact that more than 40% of British voters stuck by Labor through the sweep. But the fact remained that for Britain's 53-year-old Labor Party it was a staggering defeat, threatening to open never-healed wounds, confronting...
...high salaries now available at Exeter actually constitute a difficulty, for many of the older teachers are already well enough paid so that they would be very reluctant to start teaching full-time. The long summer vacation is one of the natural disadvantages of teaching, but it is also one of the great appeals...
...Columbia offense is no soft touch. Quarterback Tom Vassell, the offensive leader in the Ivy League, and end Bob Federspiel, one of the most feared pass receivers in the League, make a dangerous combination. Vassell has accounted for 269 yards with his throwing and Federspiel scared the Elis enough for them to put two men on him. At left half will be Don Savini, extremely fast and just as lethal to the outside as Brookins...