Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congress reacts to letters like the tides to the moon, and in election time the moon is full. Thus, when UMT ran into a welter of hostile letters, Congress sent it back to the Armed Services Committee...
Like the tides however, the Speaker is a little behind the moon. The proposal he refers to as UMT is not really a universal military training program at all, and even if Congress approves it, those who instructed Vinson to keep plugging will not get what they are supporting. Instead, they will get a program limited to five years, one that cannot be set in motion until the present military draft has been lifted, and one where the trainees cannot be inducted until yet another Congressional vote. In addition to these crippling amendments, they will get only a training program...
...correct, for 2 billion dollars the U.S. could put a satellite about a thousand miles over the earth with a sign claiming, "This is U.S. property." The moderator said this is an international problem since Russia is determined that "if there is going to be a man in the moon, he's going to be a Russian...
Forecast. In St. Louis, Space Cadet Harold Buren, 9, projecting a trip to the moon in 1970, asked the local weather bureau for a prediction, was informed: "No rain, no hail, no sleet. High daytime temperature, 250°; low nighttime temperature...
...excessive opulence of wit," a lack of natural character delineation and of structural unity. The present production underlines this similarity by constant jibes at Christopher Fry, the Prince of Intellectual Fireworks (at one point there is a lengthy conversation-tango right out of his Ring Around the Moon...