Word: instants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the blood-stinging wind he flew. He called his "mayday!" SOS and got an instant response, first from an Air Force base at Altus, Okla., 200 miles away, then from another airborne B-47. Altus gave Obie a compass heading to come in on. His panel lights grew dimmer, his eyes burned like hot lead. He could see the compass needle but not the numbers. He turned his plane to bring the needle toward the heading he wanted: his own field, the Strategic Air Command's Dyess Air Force Base near Abilene, 150 miles away...
...absolutely cowering canvas." In the second of his two volumes on the Spencer-Churchill families (TIME, Oct. 1, 1956), Rowse splashes and wallops his way from the death of the great Duke of Marlborough in 1722 to the epoch of the great Winnie without losing for an instant his zest for large, fierce, frantic flourishes. Little men just disappear like blue streaks under this treatment, but most of the Spencers and Churchills are tough enough to face Rowse without cowering. Two centuries of them include...
...today's kind of instant warfare, SAC will know long before the alert crews get to the Fail Safe point whether the attack upon the West is real or just a commonplace false alarm. Chances are overwhelming that the alert airplanes will be recalled long before they get to Fail Safe point...
...work at cameras, mike booms, control panels. Some 1,300 members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers won an 8.8% pay hike in two step-ups (to a base wage of $190 a week next year), plus an assurance from CBS that video tape-the instant TV recording medium feared by the union as a major job threat-will be handled for the network only by I.B.E.W. men. After twelve days of audio leaks and video freaks, CBS was back to normal...
...seem to mind being pushed around. They're still susceptible to any suggestion that they can become more beautiful. Look at the beauty industry-it's doing better than ever. And many of the items that come into the home are really invaluable-frozen foods and instant cake mixes that allow even the worst cook to turn out a good...