Word: knife
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Berlin's Technical University, got his doctorate in Berlin in 1929. The next year he was selected to design and construct the U.S. Waterways Experiment Station at Vicksburg, Miss. Vogel did some of the most important work of his life at Vicksburg, on his knees with a grapefruit knife in his hand, digging out the first scale models of American rivers. He recalls that many top engineers ridiculed the project, and Vogel for "making mud pies," but the Vicksburg scale models now allow the engineers to predict and combat great river floods with amazing accuracy. Vogel later served...
...this one for the Navy. At Calverton, L.I., Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. lifted the security lid for a quick view of its F9F9 "Tiger." The plane looks as ferocious as its name. Designed for carrier operations, it has a short, solid snout, an undulating, "coke bottle" fuselage, and drooping, knife-thin wings. For armament, it will carry air-to-air rockets, possibly Sperry Gyroscope Co.'s new Sparrow missile, now in mass production. Top speed: top secret, but the plane weighs less than 20,000 Ibs. and packs a burly 7,800-lb. -thrust J65 Sapphire engine with afterburner...
...recess, the compromise machinery went into gear. Knowland offered a closure motion, and it was beaten, as he knew it would be. When the filibusterers began offering their amendments, Knowland asked for unanimous consent to limit debate. The filibustering bloc warned him that they would not stand for a knife at their throats, and Knowland backed down. An amendment to kill all domestic portions of the bill was beaten. Then an amendment to modify the patent features of the bill and extend the licensing period on atomic inventions from five to ten years was passed...
...summer heat, sodden in the torrential rains of winter; it is a place of sunsets in the haze of dust and of short twilights when the sky at the last moment goes green over the sharp, violet mountains, which seem to have been cut out by a knife . . . The landscape of Castile, Unamuno said, is for monotheism, not pantheism. God is a precise thing like a stone, the Christ is a real man bleeding, and the blood of His wounds stains the mother's cheeks as she leans against Him; the Virgin is a real girl. In this country...
...photographer grabs his binoculars to take a closer look, hauls out his telephoto lens to get right down to fine points-such as a saw and a carving knife the salesman is meticulously wrapping in newspaper beside the kitchen sink...