Word: meshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...situation. By plane and helicopter he brought his new Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and his close White House advisers to join him aboard the cruiser for high-policy discussions. By the time the two task forces joined in Hawaii, they would be able to match and mesh their potentialities and plans. Somewhere after that, the President-elect of the U.S. would make his decisions...
...vertically and turn its course toward the east to take advantage of the spin of the earth (1,038 m.p.h. at the equator). At the altitude of 24.9 miles and the speed of 5,256 m.p.h., the first section will separate and return to earth, braked by a steel-mesh parachute and downward-firing rockets. The second section will carry on, its motors lifting the rocket to 39.8 miles and boosting its speed to 14,364 m.p.h. Then it too will drop off, leaving the final, manned section to blast itself upward alone, attaining the speed of 18,468 m.p.h...
...Mine. Bill Green was 15 when he went to work beside his English-born father in the central Ohio coal fields. He soon observed that the companies were cheating the miners by paying only for large chunks of coal which did not fall through a 2-in. mesh. Green's reaction was typically undramatic. He went on working in the mine, became a first-rate miner, and for many years drew the highest pay at Morgan-Run. He joined the U.M.W., rose through its ranks to become (1906) state president. He got elected to the Ohio state senate...
When she has answered her letters, Wanda Landowska is ready to descend. She loops her long, still-black hair, only sparsely greyshot, around her head, dons her blazing red corduroy robe ("red is for violence, like Bach, sometimes"), her flat, gold-mesh slippers and goes down to the kitchen for a breakfast of figs, dates and lettuce...
...every two men will have lost all his teeth or will be suffering from a disease of the gums or jawbone. For the toothless unfortunates, Dentists Stanley ]. Behrman and George F. Egan described a new method of locking false teeth in place with magnets. Protected by plastic and tantalum mesh, the magnets are imbedded in the jawbone and lock tight against similar magnets built into the denture...