Word: instants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...live not in an instant of danger, but in an age of danger," said Dwight Eisenhower, as he faced the microphones in the White House for his first presidential speech directly to the people of the U.S. The President had turned down television for the old-fashioned radio, so that he could concentrate on careful reading of the two tough propositions he wanted to make clear. The propositions: 1) because the Communist danger is still very real, the Administration has decided on a policy of no tax cuts until next January (TIME, May 25) and must ask Congress to extend...
...show or a western film, but in the lightweight championship fight between Challenger Tommy Collins, 133 Ibs., and Champion Jimmy Carter, 135 Ibs., televised over NBC from the Boston Garden. After two relatively even rounds, Carter hit Collins (an overblown featherweight) a hard left to the jaw. For an instant, Collins remained dazedly upright; then he fell backward to the canvas as if poleaxed...
...such indignation (in your April 6 Letters column) over Queen Elizabeth removing her wrap unassisted ... I am sure a request [to the Duke of Edinburgh] in the form of a discreet nudge in the ribs would have brought him to her instant...
...Christ, oh Christ . . . the King's horse!" cried a looker-on. "No one can check him!" At that instant John of Oversley, a young English squire, shouted to his friend Robert of Kinwarton: "Shoot, Robert . . . shoot to turn the King's horse!" Robert shot. The arrow sang before the startled eyes of the charger and he reared back. And so, as Author Dorothy Charques tells it, King Richard was preserved to go on the Third Crusade, and squires John and Robert, as their reward, got a chance to go along in his personal entourage. Men Like Shadows...
...Eniwetok weapons tests burned their hands when they moved contaminated material without using safety equipment which was provided . . . On June 2, 1952, four persons were exposed to a burst of radiation at Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Ill., when a chain reaction experiment became supercritical for an instant. The exposed personnel . . . were given thorough examinations. No ill effects have been observed...