Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the truce seemingly so near, were the Reds still attacking so fiercely on the battlefront? U.N. observers could think of several Communist motivations: 1) to wipe out a discomforting U.N. salient and get more territory for themselves; 2) to gain prestige in the closing hours; 3) to punish the ROKs-or rather to punish Rhee by bloodying the ROKs-and convince them they could get nowhere against Communist power if they fought alone...
...each direction (to average out the wind) over a three-kilometer course marked with smoke generators. He flew with his afterburner roaring (for maximum thrust) at an altitude of 90 ft. (to fly in the hottest air). The rules required him to fly level so that he could gain no speed out of diving, and his Sabre jet carried a simulated military load, representing rockets, radar, etc. During the tests, shortly after noon, the temperature near the ground reached 104°. In air as hot as this, the speed of sound is 797 m.p.h...
...complex, protests arose against the quality of public employees produced by the patronage system. After 20 years of agitation, the Pendleton Act of 1883 established a merit system of appointment for some Government employees. Steadily, but very slowly, the merit system spread within the U.S. Government. Its next sensational gain was made under Theodore Roosevelt, but even at the end of his Administration, little more than 60% of federal civilian employees had civil-service protection. Herbert Hoover extended it further until at the end of his term about 80% of employees were covered...
...powerful and respected Senator Harry Byrd delivered a pointed attack on Mc-Carthyism. "Mr. Matthews," he said, "should give names and facts to sustain his charge or stand convicted as a cheap demagogue, willing to blacken the character of his fellow Americans for his own notoriety and personal gain...
Meanwhile, to gain time to test the course of true love and to test the public's response, Group Captain Townsend was posted off to an embassy sinecure in Brussels. On tour in Southern Rhodesia with her mother, Princess Margaret complained of a cold, was ordered to bed by her doctor-a heart specialist...