Word: framed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With characteristic Canadian reserve, Alberta has suppressed most of the roistering atmosphere of a traditional oil boom. But the physical evidence of a changing frontier is visible everywhere. In Edmonton, the provincial capital, steel skeletons of new skyscrapers rise against a background of frame buildings, false-fronted stores and old log houses. The city's population, up from 113,000 to 160,000 since 1946, has spread out beyond the reach of existing sidewalks, plumbing and telephone lines...
...discovery of the Affray was the first practical application of underwater TV by the Royal Navy. After two years of experimental tests, British scientists succeeded in mounting a TV camera in a watertight container specially welded to withstand high pressure at extreme depths, added a pipe frame containing powerful searchlights, and connected the apparatus to a salvage ship with a coaxial cable...
...columns, Dirks wrote about Camano's little frame church and two of the people who kept it going-Sunday-school Teacher Mrs. Mertie Best ("a saint in a house dress") and Pastor Walter Jerome Wheeler. "How much nicer and more convenient it would be, say," he wrote, "if a church were located closer at hand. Perhaps in a grove of hemlocl where the cleared land descends toward the blue channel water; somewhere, wher the kindly Sunday-school teacher would not have so far to go . . . Last night th Farmer [Dirks] could contain himself m longer. He visited Mr. Wheeler...
...feet of terrain. The Chinese soldier gave the show away when he said that the attacking plane had its headlights on; no U.N. air unit attacks with lights on at night. After first checking the whereabouts of every U.N. plane that night, Matt Ridgway denounced the affair as a "frame-up" and scorned it as an "amateurishly staged presentation . . ." The Communists, in turn, denounced Ridgway's reply as "savage" and "contemptible," charged further attempts to murder Communist personnel by U.S. and South Korean "plainclothesmen," and accused U.N. air commanders of sending planes over Shanghai and Tsingtao. In one message...
...human frame stand the painful acceleration (at least three times the pull of gravity for the first 9½ minutes) needed to propel a rocket into a permanent orbit around the earth? Perhaps, say the scientists-if the cabin is properly air-conditioned, if the passengers' heads are clamped into position to prevent a neck-snapping jolt during takeoff, if some kind of magnetic suits are provided to hold them to the floor when the familiar pull of gravity fades away. Could the weightless pilot, whipping through space at seven miles a second, depend on his sense of vision...