Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles from the earth, a polished metal sphere the size of a beach ball passed over the world's continents and oceans one day last week. As it circled the globe for the first time, traveling at 18.000 m.p.h., the U.S. was blissfully unaware that a new era in history had begun, opening a bright new chapter in mankind's conquest of the natural environment and a grim new chapter in the cold...
...order to keep the 1958 spending total from running past the new $72 billion estimate, the Administration is squeezing to hold defense spending down to $38 billion. And the high cost of technological complexity in the jet-missile-atom era makes that ceiling uncomfortably low. In the past few months. Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson ordered uniformed-manpower cuts totaling 200,000 men (TIME, Sept. 30). And in the week when the Soviet Union launched history's first man-made earth satellite, the U.S. was nibbling again at its own defenses. Item: the Strategic Air Command announced that...
Functional planning and flexibility of design are the proudest claims of modern architecture. The era when a Matthews or Weld Hall might rise like some disoriented Phoenix from the bosom of Harvard Yard is supposedly gone forever. Then, in the midst of enlightenment, a great seven-story cliche makes its way to Plympton Street, somewhat naked and completely out of character...
...confirm that the men of Gibeon were not only "hewers of wood and drawers of water" but also drinkers of wine. Since the jars bear the names of wine-making firms (Hananiah, Azariah and Amariah), they also offer scholars one of the largest finds of Hebrew writing of an era some 500 years before the Dead Sea Scroll period...
...last week for finance ministers of the world's underdeveloped countries. Meeting in Washington at the International Monetary Fund, sister of the World Bank, they heard Black give a polite accounting of the bank's biggest ($332 million disbursed around the globe) year since the Marshall Plan era. But far less polite was Black's accounting of how some of the loans were used...