Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five-Cent Coffee. But the nation's mood was wariness-not despair. Many a family was taking advantage of easier credit to buy or build the house that "tight money" kept out of reach during the 1957 boom. Federal Housing Administration loan applications during 1958's first eight weeks added up to 31,929, as against 18,662 in the same span...
...overruled only by a three-quarters majority of the twelve-man board, where Silberstein controls five votes. The committee's members: Weisman, Jacoby, Silberstein and a newcomer, Alfons Landa, 60, leader of the anti-Silberstein forces. Landa thus got a strong position from which to reach for more control...
...call it cowardice. The plot becomes as thorny as a Chihuahua cactus until, with the last shreds of his officer's prestige. Thorn flogs the men and the woman toward Cordura. By the time the wanderers, addled by the sun and gut-racked by the alkaline water, reach the hideous end of their journey, Novelist Swarthout has sketched a powerful case against the military. Some of the characters, including the woman prisoner and a fugitive criminal, have a prefabricated, Hollywood patness. But Novelist Swarthout writes in a workmanlike style that only occasionally recalls the toothless tigers...
...will be the most ticklish part of the flight. The pilot will have the help of special flight instruments, and his object will be to meet the atmosphere at a very low angle to minimize speed and heating. The temperature of some parts of the structure is expected to reach 1,000° F. If the temperature rises too high, the pilot may point the nose upward to get into thinner air and let the ship cool off. Gradually the X-15 will lose both speed and altitude. When it has lost enough of both, the pilot will ease...
...birds of altogether different feathers. The New Delhi visitors: U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge, North Viet Nam's vermicelli-bearded Red Boss Ho Chi Minh, Afghanistan's King Mohammed Zahir Shah. By all odds, Ho was the corniest good neighbor, kissed every official within reach, made misty-eyed speeches with proletarian humility, begged New Delhi's schoolchildren to call him chacha (uncle), the same term of endearment they have been taught to call Nehru. Less interested in making loaded impressions, King Zahir, on a 15-day state visit, rushed busily between polo and field...