Word: second
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newest of three Negro regulars now on the Dodger roster, Newcombe is also the hardest of the three to handle. On the road, Catcher Roy Campanella and Second-Baseman Jackie Robinson take turns sharing the big, moody rookie as a roomie. When he is his normal, placid, taciturn self, they needle him up to ballfield pitch. They soothe him when he gets upset and threatens to get out of line...
Fire! Then Murphy counted by seconds: "X minus 10 . . . 9 . . . 8 . . ." When he reached "5," Rosen ordered: "Fire!" A man at the control board pushed a switch, setting off the rocket's igniter. The rocket was not supposed to go off until "zero," but as Commander Murphy chanted "4 . . . 3 . . ." an enormous, fiery blast broke out from under its fins. For a fraction of a second, the rocket hesitated. For another fraction it rose slowly. Then it rose like a streak, as if an irresistible force had picked it off the earth and tossed it into the sky. Behind...
...shoe stores, Dr. Williams found, deliver from five to 58 times the maximum dose considered safe by the American Standards Association and the New York City Health Department. The safe dose is two roentgens for each exposure. The safest machine examined by Williams delivered two roentgens in four seconds; the most dangerous delivered the dose in one-third of a second. Exposures range from five to 45 seconds; the one most often used is 20 seconds...
...minus one minute, Commander Murphy began to count in five-second intervals. When he reached "X minus 35 seconds," Milton Rosen of the Naval Research Laboratory ordered, "Recorders...
Married. Dr. Herbert Thomas Kalmus, 67, co-developer and financial brainpower of flourishing Technicolor, Inc. (1948 net profit, $1,775,834); and Eleanore ("Glorify Yourself") King, 38, syndicated columnist for King Features; both* for the second time; in Los Angeles...