Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laborious countdown was stopped again for the weather. Again it was resumed, and again stopped as a rain squall splashed overhead. At last the red warning light blinked, and the workers cleared the area. The 40-man firing team had long since begun operations 750 ft. away in a sand-covered concrete blockhouse. A mile away, on the roof of a hangar, stood B. G. (for Byron Gordon) MacNabb, hardbitten, respected ("I'm just a slave-driving bastard") operations manager for Convair, Big Annie's builder. Tuned with a headset to the countdown, MacNabb relayed the information...
...sight, and she's still going!" Bursting through the low clouds, Big Annie flashed into view again for a second or two, then bored into the clouds at 8,000 ft., her course true, her engines in harmony. "Damn!" yelled a man falling from his perch to the sand. "She'll make it!" Cried MacNabb wildly to an associate: "If you weren't so ugly, I'd kiss...
...most viewed the change favorably. "We'll have a woman president by 1960," crooned suffragette leader Martha E. Miller '59. "It was merely a logical extension of our editorial stand," observed Robert H. Sand '58. "Action speaks louder than words, you know...
...President put on a pressurized G-suit and parachute. Emrick and the F-102's pilot, Captain William H. ( "Scotty") Scott, helped him into the cockpit, sand through an interpreter explained the workings of the ejection seat. "Be careful," said the interpreter to Scotty, "we've only got one President." Replied the pilot: "Yes, and we've only got one Scotty...
Until the '50s, BLS also assumed that most of its families were renters. It now checks prices of new houses, interest rates on mortgages and home improvements. But it ignores the do-it-yourself trend, assumes that labor is hired at union wages to paint the dining room, sand the floors or reshingle the roof. Other changes in the index do not reflect higher prices, but higher standards of living. The index now includes dinners out, hotel and motel rates on vacation trips, the expense of keeping more informal clothes (in addition to work clothes and Sunday best), plus...