Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pilots began to harness Leonard into the usual protective gadgetry: buoyancy gear, oxygen mask, parachute, etc. With such equipment bulging from his 205 lbs., he needed the help of five men to fold him into the tiny radarman's cabin behind the pilot. When they lowered the bullet-proof canopy, it banged against his helmet, pushed his face within six inches of the radar panel...
...world's scientists, Argentina's new method of producing atomic energy was still "the baloney bomb." More than two weeks after Perón's triumphant announcement, no proof of real accomplishment had yet appeared. The few vague details made public were unconvincing, and Dr. Ronald Richter, just decorated by Perón for his "discovery," was unconvincing...
...Congressman from Massachusetts, who appeared before a Senate Banking subcommittee looking into the tangled affairs of the RFC. Casey's testimony did not concern the RFC and at times he was a reluctant witness. But pieced together with facts which the subcommittee already knew, his story was further proof that in Washington, an alert man could hear opportunity knock when the average citizen could...
...Three Government witnesses, including a former Czech army major, had testified that she spied on U.S. Army Occupation Forces in Germany for the Czechoslovak government shortly before the 1948 Communist coup. Under the law, aliens may be excluded on a reasonable suspicion of espionage or subversion-conclusive proof is not required. Mrs. Knauff can still stall off exclusion for a while by two further appeals, but the Department of Justice is just as determined to keep her out as she is to get in. Officials say that their entire case against her cannot yet be told...
Charlie Sprague, a schoolteacher and Washington state school official before he went into newspaper work, mellowed the Statesman's traditional language but kept the hundred-proof kick when he bought the paper in 1929. He "got it by the simple, old-fashioned method of making a down payment and going into debt for the rest, paying it off over the years." In 1938, he was elected governor, but, lacking a politician's practical sense, ran into trouble. (Once, on the advice of an aide, he wore spats at a public ceremony, thus alienated thousands of frontier-minded Oregonians...