Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...underdog Army spokesmen new confidence in the bitter interservice fracas on U.S. missile dominance. Against Atlas' crash and the Air Force's bug-ridden 1,500-mile Thor missile, the Army touted its own relatively successful 1,500-mile Jupiter (TIME, June 10) and the new low-level-surf ace-to-air Hawk, made its boldest pitch yet for operational control of intermediate-range missilery (1,500 miles) now assigned to the Air Force...
West Pointer General Nathan F. Twining, 59, Air Force Chief of Staff and soon to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, took time off from a top-level conference at Quantico, Va., got photographed with the commandant of Marine Corps Schools there, Lieut. General Merrill B. Twining, 54, his seldom-publicized, Annapolis-educated kid brother...
...criticized the law that bars firing of surplus employees. In the last five years, said Eder, the number of workers in the government-run mines increased 20% while production dropped 50%. The report's blunt summary said that if Bolivians expect U.S. aid to continue at its present level (about one-third the government budget), so must stabilization...
...tubing closed at the ends, it is carefully weighted so that it barely sinks in sea water. As the depth increases, pressure makes the water heavier. The aluminum tubes resist the pressure better than the water does, so eventually the float stops sinking. It will hang at any desired level while a battery-powered transmitter sends ultrasonic beeps that carry for miles...
...always the same with church paintings. If they are on the wall more or less at eye-level one cannot see them because it is so dark, and when they are near the light, in the dome, they are so high up one cannot see them either...