Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have already taken hold, Johnson wrote-not without an oblique reference to the fact that much of this action began only after the committee's inquiry started. But overall, the committee urged strict attention to the kind of progress that would put the U.S. once more into high gear. Among the proposals: stronger advances in modernizing and developing the conventional Army and Navy forces, reorganization of the Defense Department, greater efforts in anti-missile missiles, and more imaginative technological achievements (such as manned missiles, a rocket motor with 1,000,000 Ibs. of thrust), as well as some head...
...fellas, let's roll it," said Johnson to the television men, who were still gasping after lugging their heavy gear up the stairs. They protested that one of their number had not yet arrived. "Well," snapped Johnson, "you take it and give it to him." Told that could not be done, Johnson was upset. "Now listen," he growled, "I told you to be ready." He had, in fact, given eight minutes' notice-which was quite a lot for a man whose breakneck energies had already turned the first week of the 85th Congress, Second Session, into...
...emigrated to Australia in 1949, may already be the finest freestylers in the world-a fact to make swimming experts boggle at what the pair might do in the next few years, as they grow to adult swimmers' estate. Said Coach Talbot: "We're only in second gear. Just wait till we get into high...
Astronaut. By next day, editors around the world had showered Moscow correspondents with their own rockets (correspondents' term for inquiries about competitors' stories). France-Soir and London's Daily Mail both ran Page One drawings of the compleat astronaut in space suit, breathing gear and seat belt. Said one query: "Like interview and first-person impressions." Demanded another: "Competition says it's woman, not man. Confirm...
Pass: Well, you know there's something called starting friction; now on this ice here, when you put the car in low gear and step on your pedal, you've got too much oomph under you to catch...