Word: folds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trouble began when pilots began to harness Leonard into the usual protective gadgetry: buoyancy gear, oxygen mask, parachute, etc. With such equipment bulging from his 205 lbs., he needed the help of five men to fold him into the tiny radarman's cabin behind the pilot. When they lowered the bullet-proof canopy, it banged against his helmet, pushed his face within six inches of the radar panel...
...United Nations: "In my book, the U.N. is a joke, anyway; they might as well fold up . . . They don't want Spain, or Portugal. No, but they want Russia...
...take up where King George III left off, but there are the Duke of Windsor and the Duke of Gloucester, and the latter has two young sons to start a line of succession. If the spirit of '76 is still too strong for a return to the fold, General MacArthur might consider accepting the robes of Emperor of the U.S.A., with his young son as Crown Prince...
...some of them, vile and dishonorable: beyond all understanding . . . [But] under this Administration there will be no implied, no disguised, no direct and no indirect censorship . . . even if the tiny group of malcontents who traduce your Government from day to day were to increase and intensify their output twenty fold...
...argument between the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board, which has long been arguing for higher interest rates. The decision was designed to discourage banks from turning their Government securities into cash, then loosing the cash into the nation's credit structure where its buying power increases six-fold (TIME, Feb. 19). In a nutshell, what the Treasury will do is this: a new issue of bonds paying 2¾% will be offered as a swap for existing 2½% bonds maturing...