Word: lightering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Armored vest protects against small, low-velocity fragments, is lighter than Korean war armor, better designed for protection at vital throat areas...
...rifle replacing the familiar Garand M-1 (adopted in 1936), weighs a pound less (8.7 Ibs.), has a 20-round magazine (v. 8 rounds), fires 7.62-mm. NATO ammunition, which is smaller and lighter than the old .30-cal. ammo. Gone: the bayonet. Interchange of barrels makes the M-15, automatic version of the M-14, almost 7 Ibs. lighter than the Browning Automatic Rifle...
Whiskey Americain. Rosenstiel is not only betting on lighter, milder bourbon to take 50% of the U.S. market for domestic whisky this year, but hopes to sell it heavily abroad where bourbon is more foreign than vodka is to Americans. Musing over possible results, the trade magazine Advertising Age printed an imaginary dialogue in a Paris bistro...
Stebbins said that "presently there is no middle ground between our two camps and the lighter we tread, the better." He expressed hope that the Band might be able to appear there "in better days...
Last year stately, plump Queen Juliana of The Netherlands walked up for her annual Speech from the Throne with the heavy grace of a Wagnerian diva. Last week a trim, svelte (25 Ibs. lighter) Juliana delivered another royal oration, and the London Sunday Dispatch gleefully revealed what it claimed to be the slimming secret: a bland diet ordered by a fat, fiftyish hair-restorer salesman named Jos de Cock, who runs the "Enorga Institute" in The Hague. After an analysis of strips of litmus paper that a prospective weight loser licks after meals, went the story, De Cock devises...