Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is not being quite fair; there are bits of force, universals, and even good comedy in The Dark, but not enough to lift the play from competence into excellence...
...What does he have to say about Russia's underpaid scientists, or are they overpaid? The trouble with us is that we just don't find an end for pricing money. I am sure that Russia does not spend so many billion dollars as we do to lift a pinhead...
...means a sacrosanct figure," said the President at his weekly press conference. Defense Secretary Neil McElroy started defense spending on the way up one day last week by restoring $170 million lopped off the current research and development budget by Charlie Wilson; he also authorized the Air Force to lift its emergency ceilings on monthly payments to aircraft companies (see BUSINESS). In view of the higher defense spending, said the President, it would require "serious retardations elsewhere" in the budget to hold the overall $70 billion line...
...satellite on an orbit. So more than 1,000,000 Ibs. of fuel must have been burned to give Little Curly her ride. The loaded rocket, with its fuel, structure, instrumentation and payload, must have weighed considerably more than 1,000,000 Ibs. To lift it off the ground at reasonable speed must have required a rocket motor (or a cluster of them) with something like 1,500,000 Ibs. of thrust...
Scientists at the Smithsonian, however, remained markedly calm in the face of the latest Russian achievement. Admitting that Muttnik is "definitely an improvement over the first one," John S. Rinehart, an associate director of the observatory, maintained that the actual force needed to lift the rocket into orbit was not much greater than that used a month...