Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eventually-but not until the archbishop gave advance proof that he would curb violence. The Cabinet compromised: Foot glumly went back to Cyprus last week with authority to permit Makarios' return at some indefinite future date (and whether violence ceases or not). But, meanwhile, Foot was ordered to push ahead with the British plan whether the Greek Cypriots like...
...transpolar celestial navigation, and for the Matador, Sparrow and other missiles. Link trainers are now being used to go through dry runs on test firings of space shots. Says Link: "Some of our missile failures were traced to human errors. In the boredom of a countdown, somebody forgot to push a button...
Resurgent Recovery. Prosperity is rising, unemployment is dropping, and the Republicans have gained points because they have refused to push the panic button on emergency tax cuts and all-out Government spending, stand firm on the doctrine that a sound economy would lead to a solid return to prosperity...
...Push-Pull Power. Even in such company, a 29-year-old pressman for the Los Angeles Times stood out from the start. Calm, calculating Marion ("Mickey") Thompson had put together an $8,000 streamliner that seemed to howl with speed just standing still. For push-pull power, Thompson remade two 1957 Chrysler engines and geared the first to the front wheels and the second to the back. To soup up the engines to a total of 850 h.p., Thompson and his buddy, Fred Voigt, added a magneto to each for hot-spark firing (standard ignition gradually weakens as engine speed...
...addiction." On the last day of the trials, Thompson crawled into his car, which stands only 32 in high, settled himself in the driver's seat, got a push from a truck until his engines thundered to life at 45 m.p.h., and set out for glory. Astonished timers caught his blurred passage on the first pass through the traps at 294,117. A new record seemed certain. But on the return trip, when Thompson got up to 280 m.p.h., three connecting rods on the front engine suddenly snapped under the strain, punched a hole in the engine block. Thompson...