Word: liquidates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many airplanes, especially heavy-laden bombers, are launched by booster (jato) rockets whose powerful push gets them into the air without too long a take-off run. The rockets are expensive, whether they use liquid or solid fuel, so the West German Ministry of Transport asked jet-propulsion experts to evaluate hot-water rockets, a prewar German idea that never got a thorough tryout. Recently, Physicist Werner Michely told a meeting at Freu-denstadt that hot-water booster rockets look promising...
Nike. In the antiaircraft division, the Army has the well-publicized Nike (rhymes with Mikey), a liquid-fuel rocket launched by a solid-fuel booster and steered toward invading bombers by radio. The Nike dates back to the Keller era and is not the last word, but the Army believes that it will hit any attacking bomber sent over in the near future. Admittedly the Nike is a point defense weapon with only moderate lateral range. But the Army has so many Nike batteries at strategic points that their ranges already overlap...
...singer in a high-flying cast was Leontyne Price, whose liquid soprano never sounded truer or sweeter. The brilliant music was matched by TV Director Kirk Browning's elegant camera shots, and the designs made of heads and bodies by Stage Director George Balanchine. It was not quite matched by the singable but self-conscious English text by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, but it all added up to the finest TV opera to date...
...Canadian scientists (TIME, Feb. 23, 1953), that a substance called sex chromatin can be detected in female but not in male cells. Dr. David Serr and Geneticists Leo Sachs and Mathilde Danon of Jerusalem's Rothschild-Hadassah University Hospital reasoned that cells in the amniotic fluid, the liquid inside the sac that encloses the fetus, could be analyzed to reveal the child's sex. To get small samples of the fluid, they inserted an extremely fine hypodermic needle through the vagina and into...
...Nicholson, 53, moved into the presidency of Liquid Carbonic Corp., largest domestic producer of carbonic gas and dry ice (1954 net sales: $51 million), succeeding William A. Brown, who resigned last month after control of the company passed to a stockholders' group. Texas-born, Nicholson has been successively a cattle dealer in Amarillo (1910-24), a construction superintendent in Tacoma, Wash. (1924-37), assistant administrator of the Federal Works Agency, Western Division (1937-44), since 1945 president of Pacific Tractor & Implement Co. of Richmond, Calif...