Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end more than 27,000 of about 34,000 North Koreans had joined in the breakout. U.S. helicopters and spotter planes watched them on the roads, in the villages; U.S. M.P.s recognized a few of them-lean, young, alert, with shorter haircuts than other Koreans-in the back alleys of Pusan. But most were hidden, methodically quartered among the townspeople. Only a handful were recaptured, most of them voluntarily, apparently swayed by U.N. leaflets and broadcasts declaring that they had "made a mistake...
...middle of the twenties there was a jazz band at the College named the Gold Coast Orchestra, whose stock cornet was a lad named Sargent Kennedy '28. Twenty-three years later, College jazz was in the hands of a group with a shorter name: the Crimson Stompers. But Kennedy still dropped around to take a few licks at rehearsals. The only difference was that Kennedy was then Secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Registrar of the University--highest position in the administrative hierarchy presently held by a member of the Reunion Class...
Thirty-six years ago, as a cadet at the Royal Naval College, I saw the "mad major" test an incredible looking crate called a triplane- three wings, one below the other-top wing long, second shorter, third shortest. About 10,000 feet up over Spithead (the strip of water separating the mainland from the Isle of Wight) he made that crate do every trick . . . then put it in a dive and on the way down executed three close loops-one after the other...
...typical Communist methods. Last February one of Murphy's organizers, posing first as a mining official and later as a newspaper reporter, arrived in Uranium City. Living in a shack tent, he worked among the miners in the evenings and on weekends, promising them more pay, better bunks, shorter hours. An anti-Communist C.I.O. union tried to stem the Mine-Mill drive. Mine-Mill "put the case in terms of pork chops," said a government labor official. "The [other fellows] talked vaguely." Before long, the anti-Communists withdrew...
...expects to sell the plane to foreign lines, fears no competition from Britain's Comet. While the Comet will go faster between stops, Douglas thinks that the DC-7 will beat it in elapsed time because it will not have to make the refueling stops needed by the shorter-range Comet. Douglas is still tight-lipped about its own plans for jet transports, but the DC-7, says Vice President Arthur Raymond, "is definitely our last piston-type transport of the DC-7 size...