Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief of government. But the bromide he and Premier Bulganin prepared together, though it bore many marks of Nehru's literary style, was dominantly Communist. Though Nehru might boast that the Russians had agreed not to interfere in other countries, words mean different things in different mouths; the net impression would be that Nehru and the Russians had found themselves in agreement...
...speed jet. In the bypass engine, part of the air from the forward compressor flows around the combustion chambers (incidentally cooling trie engine's skin) and mixes with the speeding gas in the tailpipe. It cools the stream and slows it, but adds greatly to its mass. The net result is a large, comparatively slow stream that does not waste a large amount of energy by outspeeding its airplane...
Burly Cinematenor Mario [The Great Caruso'] Lanza, a devil-may-care sort of swashbuckler with four playful children, found himself in a peck of trouble in California courts. Net of two separate damage suits against him: home-wrecking -in the literal, unromantic sense. His hectic week began when a judge awarded a whopping $40,361.66 to a Beverly Hills couple named Kaiser to undo the swath cut through their $200,000 house in a mere 28 months by former Tenant Lanza and brood. (Lanza's lawyer promptly cried foul, claimed that the default decision was illegal because...
...present reality. Because of the rail strike, the Queen gave up her traditional golden coach, instead drove to Westminster in a closed car to avoid drawing sightseeing crowds to add to London's traffic snarl. But inside the House of Lords, ancient ceremony took over. Resplendent in white net and diamanté, the imperial crown gleaming on her head and heavy purple robes sweeping back from her shoulders, the young Queen read the Speech from the Throne, written for her by "my government," to an assemblage glittering with peers' coronets and robes, the jewels and silks of their...
...symposium learned something of this from Dr. Salk himself. They had gone there, full of admiration and curiosity, to hear him and see him get a $10,000 award* for his achievements. They listened attentively, some with obvious puzzlement, as he read a long and tightly technical report. Its net: mass manufacture was not the same as making vaccine in his precisely controlled laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh...