Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranks as one of the Eisenhower Administration's greatest achievements that the U.S. managed to make up for the lost years and close the military-missile gap. The military job of a ballistic missile is not to go to the moon but to hit an earthly target from a launching site elsewhere on the earth, and U.S. missiles appear to be about as fit for that job as their Soviet counterparts. But in concentrating on closing the gap in military-missile technology, the Eisenhower Administration neglected the challenge of space. When the U.S. undertook its first serious space project...
Albany Tower, this is 163. I'm in the vicinity of Albany flying VFR [Visual Flight Rules] on a training flight from Mansfield, Mass., and I think I'm lost. Over...
...inventor of the dry martini is lost in history's haze. Some romantic gin-and-vermouth scholars say it was St. Martin of Tours, patron of tosspots. Others hold that a tipsy barkeep at San Francisco's Palace Hotel happened on the formula by accident before World War I. The Italian vermouth company, Martini & Rossi, is sometimes credited with first honors, and an 1862 bartender's manual describes a "martinez" which contains the basic ingredient but adds maraschino and bitters. Whatever its origin, there is no doubt that the martini is America's favorite cocktail...
...Stultz wanted more than anything in the world to be a commercial pilot. Under the G.I. Bill, he began taking flying lessons. This day, with 67 solo hours, he was on a cross-country solo hop, from Mansfield to Albany, to Buffalo and back. And he was hopelessly lost...
...years, Soviet economists have inveighed against installment buying as simply another hobnail in the capitalist heel grinding the faces of the poor. When a Western worker lost his job, they declared, he lost his car, his furniture, even the home on which he could no longer keep up payments. Last week, in an unabashed about-face, workers all over Russia were invited to sign up for the installment plan as a wide range of Soviet consumer goods were made available on credit...