Word: loads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impressive talent for fashioning an air-tight argument, Jessup was a welcome change from the windy speechifying of ailing Delegate Warren Austin and the arm-pumping forensics of Texas' minor statesman, Tom Connally. He soon began to carry more & more of the U.S. load: the debates over Palestine and Indonesia, the showdown last fall on Berlin. After Lawyer Jessup had demolished Lawyer Vishinsky in the Berlin debate with a damning, well-documented indictment of Russian policy (TIME, Oct. 18, 1948), one Western European delegate commented admiringly: "That was the best presentation I've heard from the American side...
...seven years, the utility companies have added 6,000,000 customers to their service, and have almost doubled the total amount of current they feed to all consumers. On top of that, industry has changed from three shifts a day, which spread the load, to the single shift, which concentrates it at one time. The result has been that most companies now have only a 4% emergency reserve of power...
Three weeks ago the Atomic Energy Commission cleared Frank Graham, President of the University of North Carolina, for important work at the Institute of Nuclear Studies in Oak Ridge. The decision reversed a recommendation of the Commission's own Security Office. It kicked up a load of complaints and charges of "laxity" by columnists, and commentators. And it threw some much-needed attention on the Government's entire security program...
...been handy in the bucket on offense, and equally useful in grabbing rebounds off the board. He probably played his best game when the freshmen beat Trinity 43-37 on December 16. Just before exam period Harper began using Al Switzer at center with considerable success to lessen the load on Stevenson...
...morning last week a C82 lifted from a runway at Pope Air Force Base, N.C., carrying a load of paratroopers for a practice jump. A flock of starlings, startled from the trees, swept across its nose. They were drawn in by the thrashing propellers. The carburetor air intakes of both engines suddenly became choked with dead birds, the engines faltered. Pilot Robert Kilpatrick shouted to a crewman to push the jump bell...