Word: fired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...untold account of how Project Argus was hastily organized last summer to beat President Eisenhower's deadline for suspending nuclear tests, and the perilous and secret voyage of the Norton Sound around Cape Horn under forced draft to fire the rockets 300 miles into the sky over the South Atlantic, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, on the Voyage of the Norton Sound...
...drive to bewitch and bother the West, the Kremlin is moving in more directions at once than fire in a hay barn. The latest Soviet maneuver: a determined trafficking with Western Europe's opposition Socialists...
...Cullmann cited two examples of Christ's sayings found both in the Gospel of St. Thomas and the church fathers: 1) "He who is near me is near the fire, and he who is far from me is far from the kingdom"; 2) "Split a piece of wood -I am there; lift the stone and you will find me there...
...Peacemaker) and the Colt .44 (Frontier), the preferred pistols in the West, were clumsy objects; they weighed 3 lbs. 1 oz.. stretched 10¼ in. from butt to sight. To learn the quick draw with this blunderbuss took a lot of practice, and the man who could fire it accurately beyond 20 ft. was rare. Nevertheless, the best of the gunsharks-with the help of sawed barrels, tied triggers, shifted grips, lowered hammers and greased holsters-could slap leather and spill five shots, all in less than a second. (The modern record is claimed by a Denver butcher named...
Banks have found the credit card a sure-fire way to drum up credit business (instead of taking a one-shot loan, the cardholder becomes a permanent credit customer). In the typical system used by Chase Manhattan Bank, the stores pay a fee of 6% or less on charge-card business, depending on volume. Cardholders get the service free if they pay their monthly bills on time; or they can pay in five monthly installments, with a 1% monthly charge on the unpaid balance...