Word: null
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...documents on the missile program to unauthorized businessmen, newsmen and Congressmen. The motivation: Nickerson was making a hero's fight on behalf of the Army missile program ("I was trying anonymously to influence certain key people") against the Air Force's assigned task of operating all the null 1,500-mile missiles, and was thereby (like Billy Mitchell, said the script) risking his career in obedience to higher duty...
...century and a half later the Massachusetts Assembly was to declare the Stamp Act "against Magna Carta and the natural rights of Englishmen and, therefore, according to the Lord Coke, null and void." And it was to give effect to this same manner of ruling that the U.S. Supreme Court itself was brought into existence...
...there was still one faint hope: a landing that would give the dangling paratrooper half a chance to survive the high-speed impact with the ground. Ingeniously the Air Force ordered fire engines to spray a runway of Pope Air Force Base with slick, heavy foam. Just before the null wheels touched down, one of the crewmen cut Flugum loose. He shot along the runway back down, protected by his parachute pack, in a smooth, 100-ft. glide. Thanks to the split-second ingenuity, he was unbruised by the landing. But despite all the ingenuity, all the desperate effort...
...haywire economic development lacked those prime essentials of productivity-labor efficiency and capital investment. He appealed to the C.G.T., but the unions had made their featherbed and were happy to lie in it. Seeking investment, he signed a contract for Standard Oil of California to explore and develop a null chunk of Patagonia. Because it was dealing with arbitrary Juan Perón, Calso insisted on the right to appeal deadlocked company-country disputes to the American Petroleum Institute. Even loyal Peronistas grumbled at that. At the same time, Perón turned angrily and senselessly against the clergy...
...igth century England was Dickens' Great Expectations. Young Pip. packing his bags for London to become a gentleman, fulfilled the dream image of a confident and ambitious middle class. Since 1954, an equally symbolic novel has come to stand for the small expectations and raddled nerves of null century Britain - and especially its middle-class intellectuals-under the Welfare State. The novel: Kingsley Amis' Lucky...