Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week's crash was not expected to slow the buildup of the nation's B-52 fleet to 600-900 planes by 1958. Nor did the grounding seriously weaken U.S. defenses. Still in the air were the Air Force's venerable B-36s and shorter-ranged but strategically based B-47s. B-52 crews, moreover, continued to report for around-the-clock duty, and on the flight lines their ships stood combat-ready, their engines tested, their fuel tanks full. "In any need or emergency," said the Air Force, "the B-52s will...
...There have been, from a shorter-range point of view, enough sudden alternations in both domestic and foreign policy, both between rigidity and flexibility and between drastically contrasting courses of policy and action, to justify naming 'cyclical behavior' one of the most distinctive operating characteristics of the Soviet system...
...SHORTER WORK WEEK will be next big labor goal. A.F.L.C.I.O. officials and research directors met last week in Washington to draw up preliminary plan for demands, such as cutting standard work week to four days totaling 32 hours, with overtime for everything more. One chilling problem, which unionmen noted: Do women want their husbands around house three days a week...
...memory too. "Weren't the rules on Ruth's side then? There were no ground-rule doubles. Some of his homers actually bounced into the stands. Counting them that way, Mantle might have broken the record already." The sentimentalist has a ready answer: "The fences are shorter now, which makes things more than even. And what about the rabbit ball...
Weather radar works by sending out pulses of radio waves which are reflected by raindrops, hailstones and other precipitation particles. Shorter waves rebound from the tiny drops of moisture of a cloud's surface. The longer wave bands penetrate clouds like X rays, show only the inner core (if any) of heavy rain or hail.- Thus, by varying wave bands and pulse lengths, the new weather radars can look at a cloud as a whole or can look deeply into it, or even through it. They can measure accurately a cloud's altitude -a matter of critical importance...