Word: rams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vetoed three weeks ago. Republicans had wrathfully introduced it again. They took another veto for granted. But they thought that by changing the effective date from July 1, 1947 to January 1948, they might muster enough strength to override the President. In the House, Speaker Joe Martin expected to ram the bill through early this week with better than a two-thirds majority, rush it along to the Senate...
...develop into a major crisis. The compromise settlement cost the Government some prestige and an estimated $165 million in wage boosts for the workers - which made it even harder for the Government to hold the line against inflation. But the Communists, who had used the strike as a battering ram against tenacious little Ramadier, had not managed to topple the Government. June 7, a secretary of Communist Boss Maurice Thorez told a friend: "In two weeks we shall be back in the Government." Last week, he said: "Now I am going away on a six weeks' vacation...
...simpler type, promising for the future, is the ram jet or "flying stovepipe," which has no moving parts at all. But both turbojets and ram jets need oxygen, and so cannot operate outside the lower atmosphere. For really high altitude work, an effective guided missile must have its own rocket motor, as the V25 did, and must carry its own oxygen...
...luxurious third-floor apartment of Havana's rococo presidential palace, bachelor Ramón Grau San Martin had finished his morning cup of sweet black coffee. On the stroke of 9 he walked down the private stairway to his office below. He was ready for a day-long procession of visitors...
...custom dies hard in England. To Kingsteignton's rescue came Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, who invited the village's ram-roast committee to the deer park of his 3,000-acre estate, let them shoot a buck. With that slight deviation to modern complexities, the village planned to carry on its ancient rite this week. But Kingsteigntonians were still rankled by the irreverent crack of a Communist M.P. during Rayner's plea. The Commie sneered that this was "one of those heathen customs the Conservative Party wants to retain...