Word: midgeter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tiny jet engines on the tips of the two rotor blades power the midget machine. The pilot-passenger carries twin tanks for the liquid propane fuel on his back, maneuvers by hand-held throttle and blade-pitch controls. One de luxe feature: pushbutton starting fired by three flashlight batteries. Gluhareff so far has tested his helicopter in tethered flight, estimates that when he tries free flight he will soar to 4,500 feet, buzz along at 50 m.p.h., have a cruising range of 25 miles, float lightly to earth if the engines conk...
Next day, Homer Capehart, still smarting under Kerr's angry reply to "the midget" from Indiana, discovered that the Oklahoman had prudently revised the Congressional Record transcript to read that Ike had no "fiscal brains." That, said Capehart, shows exactly what "kind of gentleman" Bob Kerr is. Then Capehart did a doubletake on another Kerr line in the Congressional Record from the previous day's debate. Kerr: "I do not say that the President has no brains at all. I reserve that broad and sweeping accusation for some of my cherished colleagues in this body...
...when Chicago's Bob Gold-ich, 33, took a tricky S turn just a touch too fast. His little (1.9 liters) Arnolt-Bristol sports car skidded across a taxiway at Sebring's abandoned airfield and rolled into a sideways somersault. A graduate of the dangerous melees of midget-auto racing and the father of two children, Goldich was dead of a broken neck before he reached the hospital...
Alonso's play has lots of honorable things about it, specifically, its honesty. If the reader gets past an unfortunate dedication ("to Betsy the midget"), he is immediately aware that here is thoughtful and imaginative work. Alonso is dealing with several intriguing problems--Love, Success, Eternity, Law, Individuality, and Suicide, to name a few--and for much of the time avoids turning his lines into aphorisms. The plot line, concerning Don Juan (who had an angel for a father and a mortal for a mother) and his search for a woman he can love, is original and lively...
...first time last week, the Atomic Energy Commission disclosed the full size and scope of one of the nation's newest and most vital industries. In a few brief years the mining and processing of uranium has grown from a midget industry into a giant, with an output worth more than $100 million a year. In 1956 alone, the AEC's figures revealed, the industry processed 3,000,000 tons of raw ore into 6,000 tons of uranium concentrate (one ton of concentrate contains 11 Ibs. of U-235, the reactor fuel...