Word: lightering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nuclear submarines. Polaris' solid charge, a slow-burning chemical compound, makes Polaris the U.S.'s first "second-generation" long-range ballistic missile; the solid charge will be easier, simpler, faster to handle than present types of liquid fuel. Polaris, the first true pushbutton IRBM in sight, is lighter and smaller, so cannot pack as heavy a warhead as Jupiter and Thor. Its ultimate success will depend for several years upon 1) development of hydrogen warheads lighter than present models; 2) improvement of solid fuels to get more reliability and longer range; 3) production of a fleet...
Comparable operations are performed at other U.S. orthopedic centers. Los Angeles' Dr. Joseph C. Risser, though he pioneered the turnbuckle cast, has abandoned it in favor of a smaller, lighter cast, through which he operates after only one week. Patients, home after two weeks, can run and play while wearing the cast for only six months. Dr. Risser also favors operating in some cases that other orthopedists would leave alone. For Margie Bilotti, now 13½ and intent on an acting career, there was never any doubt about the operation's necessity. Like most of the "scolio club...
During the quietest hours one night at Salt Lake County General Hospital, a University of Utah medical student noticed that the floor tiles seemed to be pulsating and growing alternately lighter and darker. A colleague saw the head of a grey-haired woman sticking out of the doorway of an all-male ward. A third saw smoke coming from the linoleum floor, and as he watched, it turned into a fine spray of water. Another saw a roll of luminous chicken wire on the floor, but it disappeared as he walked through it. Several heard voices from afar...
Heavyweight Ted Robbins finished off the horror show with the fastest fall of the evening, taking down his lighter Tech opponent and pinning...
...thought fantastic only two years ago. Yet next year, through an ingenious system of shifting and resting planes and crews, SAC intends to have two-thirds of its planes on a constant 15-minute alert. Meanwhile, the vanguard of General O. P. ("Opie") Weyland's Tactical Air Command lighter B66 twin-jet bombers, 6-458 and F-100D supersonic fighter-bombers meets a five-minute deadline...