Word: fixedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The eleven crewmen of the 6-29 Enola Gay stood silently in the early-morning darkness, eyes fixed on a solemn, balding Navy captain with a staggering burden: two cans filled with 137.3 Ibs. of uranium 235. At 0245 hours on Aug. 6, 1945, the Enola Gay lifted heavily from...
Having decided on these various methods, the scientists turned to touchier problems. The Russians wanted only no control posts, the West 650. At week's end, after small private sessions (in English) with all translators and typists excluded, both sides seemed ready to compromise on 170. Other problems included...
This did not mean that Castro could now come down and engage in a stand-up fight. But he did hold the Oriente countryside, and he was strong enough to expand his guerrilla operations. This week rebels were fighting in four of Cuba's six provinces, and Castro reinforcements...
As a job of reporting, The Road to Wigan Pier is unmatched in the set pieces of industrial sociology. In the black country, Orwell first took lodgings above a shop that sold nothing much but "black tripe" (the "grey flocculent stuff" and the "ghostly translucent feet of pigs" were kept...
All companies entered vigorous denials to FTC charges. As the kingpin of the alleged monopoly, Pfizer's President John E. McKeen said: "Pfizer never engaged in a conspiracy, never misused its patents, never fixed prices, and wields no monopolistic powers." Although recognizing that the newer wonder drugs do command...