Word: seconds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...least 600,000 Ibs., twice the thrust of the U.S.'s most powerful rocket engine. The Soviet feat was all the more embarrassing to the U.S. because U.S. spacemen had been forced to postpone their moon shot, scheduled to soar on or near Sputnik I's second anniversary, when the Atlas-Able rocket that was supposed to do the job ignominiously blew up on its Cape Canaveral launching pad in a static test fortnight...
Governor, decided to put a high gloss on her second tongue. At Manhattan's Columbia University School of General Studies, Mia plunged into an intermediate English course for foreign students, four one-hour classes a week...
...Second Revolutionary Law would have granted property...to all planters and squatters who hold parcels of less than five caballerias (166.7 acres)...and the state would indemnify the former owners over a period of ten years. (The bonds of Castro's Agrarian Reform are actually 20 year bonds...
...politicians and one that in general comes easily to voters (but not often enough, many defeated incumbents will tell you) so the exaggerated spirit of last fall already sounds clearly inconceivable. It was, however, heady enough to provoke Senator Lyndon Johnson into delivering what was referred to as a second State of the Union message; one which many thought more authoritative than the first...
...President's round on points. And it was a truly amazing performance he put on. Relegated by the experts to the role of a lame duck at the beginning of the year, he was acclaimed for his leadership at the end. Aside from a minor defeat on his second veto of the Pork Barrel Bill, the only setback to his energetic leadership was the Senate's rejection of Admiral Strauss as Secretary of Commerce. Indeed, so successful was his defense of a balanced budget, that several Democrats vied with Republicans for the dubious honor of credit for appropriating less than...