Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity's man-for-man defense, and the Crimson offense was stymied by the Wesleyan zone. Even when the varsity shifted to a zone defense, the Cardinals still scored almost at will, and ran their lead to 27 to 17 before the Crimson put on an aggressive zone press...
...With its press working, the varsity battled back, and ran off six straight points. When the Crimson moved into a full court press with 4:30 left in the half, tempers began to flare. Wesleyan wisely stayed calm when it counted, taking advantage of the varsity's over-eagerness to build its margin to 43 to 29 by intermission...
...Britain's Parliament the Economist is read and followed so widely that it is sometimes called "the alternative government." In the U.S. it is quoted more often in the press than any other foreign publication. It is considered required reading on Wall Street and Capitol Hill; the Central Intelligence Agency alone gets 200 air-expressed copies weekly. Few statesmen pass up Economist invitations to lunch in the Honky-Tonk, the staff's irreverent name for the restaurant in the basement of the Economist's London headquarters on Ryder Street...
Curtiss-Wright Corp. and its Chairman Roy T. Hurley are having their woes in the business of making aircraft engines, but when it comes to press releases, they fly high. Month ago, with sales down from $599 million in 1957 to $389 million in 1958 and still slumping, C-W displayed a "revolutionary" new air-car for U.S. travelers, a vehicle that has no wheels, but zooms along at 60 m.p.h. just off the ground on a cushion of compressed...
Last week there was no further word of air-car production or of orders. But Chairman Hurley had another innovation to announce. Calling in the press, he displayed (but did not demonstrate) a radical new internal combustion engine billed as the greatest advance since the diesel. It has no pistons or valves, only two moving parts; there is a carburetor to mix air and gasoline, a single spark plug, a rotor that drives the crankshaft. Beyond that. Hurley refused details. CW, he said, had developed the engine in conjunction with West Germany's NSU Werke, makers of autos...