Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Racquets Association. Since he began playing in big tournaments ten years ago, Hashim Khan has been beaten only once-in the first U.S. open a year ago. Hashim, who had learned the British game in Peshawar, had never played it U.S.-style (narrower and longer court, livelier ball, slightly heavier racket), and he had only two weeks of practice to get used to it. Nevertheless, Hashim won all his matches except the final, which he lost to Henri Salaun, a Boston salesman, by only one point (15-14 in the deciding game...
When the pressure reaches about 800,000 atmospheres, a strange thing happens to hydrogen. Its molecular structure collapses, and it turns into a metal much heavier than nonmetallic solid hydrogen. No such pressure can be reached in the earth's laboratories, but theoretical studies have proved that metallic hydrogen is a reality. Since the pressure at the center of Jupiter is something like 30 million atmospheres, there is plenty of room for a sphere of metallic hydrogen...
...Royal Navy, most of whose ships are out of date, will concentrate still more heavily on 1) frigates, 2) carriers, 3) submarines. Three Tiger-class cruisers now under construction will be the last gun-cruisers built for the Royal Navy: henceforth, Britain expects to arm all its heavier vessels with guided missiles. What might happen to the Navy while the missiles are being developed has many an old sea salt worried. Russia already has 30 cruisers to Britain's 26, said 81-year-old Lord Chatfield last week. Chatfield, who was Admiral Beatty's flag captain...
...summed up easily: "In the pros, you know how to get that extra leverage to be able to hit hard. You know how to hit and then be able to keep your feet to hit again. On top of everything else, you're 40 to 60 pounds heavier and 500% meaner...
Back in New Delhi from his visit to Red China, India's unpredictable Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, much improved in health and spirits, and three pounds heavier, summoned 19 members of the Congress Party working committee to his broad-lawned, two-story home. For two hours he lectured them on his impressions in the land of Communist Mao. General theme: "Anything they can do, we can do better," and "Democracy is better than dictatorship...