Word: lateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Late one night last week, Moore went alone to the high-altitude chamber. On the control panel outside the 10-ft.-by-30-ft. heavy steel tank, he set the altitude indicator at 73,000 ft., a near vacuum just below the limit of the chamber's air seals. Not in space suit, but holding an oxygen mask, he let himself into the chamber and waited for the air pumps to lower the pressure, take him "up" past the blackout stage, on beyond the sure-death line to 73,000 ft. His body, as if taken by rocket...
When the senate rejected his bond-issue plan, Soapy's only hope for getting enough money to meet state payrolls in late April and beyond was to ignore the outcries of veterans' organizations and tap the state's $50 million veterans' trust fund, set up in 1946. Even if he can find a way to get at the trust fund, Soapy will still have to push for tax increases to keep the state solvent. Republicans in the legislature have proposed to blot up the red ink by upping the sales tax to 4%, but Soapy Williams...
Jetting home to Moscow late in the week, Khrushchev exuded confidence. Still, after all his dickerings with his East German satraps, he had not taken the crucial step of unilaterally giving them a "peace treaty," as he had promised to. That step, he knew, might prejudice his chances of getting a heads-of-government summit meeting...
...were such trials still going on at this late date? In Koch's case, his own illness and the search for evidence had postponed the trial for eight years. Merten had returned to Greece in April 1957 as the prosperous representative of German travel agencies, and to his astonishment had been arrested...
French Violinist Christian Ferras, 25, is a darkly handsome young man with a taste for driving sleek, low-slung cars around the Bardot-shaped coast of the French Riviera. He is also the most loudly acclaimed young violinist to emerge from France since the late Ginette Neveu, who died in a 1949 plane crash. Last week Violinist Ferras turned up in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and from the moment he launched into Brahms's familiar D-Major Concerto, it was clear that he had a blazing, romantic vision and the controlled technique...