Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sensitive to railroad and coal interests. But during the last fortnight, the bulwarks began to crack; one Senator after another shifted to support of the Seaway. The Administration appealed to the Republicans on the basis of national security and loyalty to the President. Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned the Senators that the Russians have six times as many submarines as the Germans did in 1939, said supplies of Canadian iron ore in a future war might depend on the Seaway...
...Lingo. Working last week with his own quartet (trumpet, piano, bass, drums) in a Los Angeles jazz joint called Zardi's, Chet kept his tempos up, his rhythm hard-swinging. His program consisted mostly of cool-jazz originals such as Maid in Mexico and Soft Shoe, but also included such rich-chorded pop tunes as Funny Valentine and All the Things You Are. Trumpeter Baker stood with his body motionless, his ears bent for the counterpoint of his sidemen, his eyes tiredly closed...
Navy's top A-bomb experts; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in New York City. A crack gunnery officer, he became chief of the Bureau of Ordnance during World War II, later led a naval bombardment group in the Pacific. In 1946, commanding Joint Task Force One (230 ships; 41,000 men; 1,000 scientists and technicians), Admiral Blandy smoothly directed the first postwar A-bomb tests at Bikini. Retiring as head of the Atlantic Fleet in 1950, he was recalled to active duty last October, when death came was busy evaluating the Navy's Reserve program...
CONVERTIPLANE, a cross between a helicopter and a fixed-wing plane, is taking shape at Bell Aircraft's Fort Worth plant under a joint Army-Air Force contract. The new aircraft will have propellers that tilt horizontally to lift it straight up like a helicopter, then tilt forward to pull the plane ahead at 150 m.p.h...
...within an elastic body is proportional to the strain to which the body is subjected by an applied load. He also partially anticipated Newton's law of gravity, published original discoveries about fossils and the rotation of the planet Jupiter, invented the double barometer and the universal joint, and worked out a practical system of semaphore telegraphy...