Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government showed obvious relief this week as France, the U.S.'s oldest ally, the nation at the heart of the NATO pact, stopped short of the brink of civil war. In Paris General Charles de Gaulle was made Premier by constitutional vote (see FOREIGN NEWS). In Washington President Eisenhower, after an uneasy week, took what amounted to a major U.S. policy decision. He told his staff that he would be "very interested" in meeting De Gaulle at the right time in Washington or some place else to talk things over...
...place full of holes-even though drilling a well there costs almost three times as much as it does at home-and already they have filed for leases on 27 million acres. The timber business racked up $34.3 million in 1957, and that economic youngster is still in short plants. Near Ketchikan, hard by the 16 million-acre Tongass National Forest, is a new, $52½ million pulp mill, and timber folk talk about production of 2 billion board feet a year (v. 33 billion Stateside). Scarcely tapped, too, is Alaska's mineral treasure, which boasts...
...slug corning over your left shoulder." He looked up, saw the sinker gliding past his head in slow motion, bided his time and coolly upped the plane's nose. The movement dropped the sinker gently into his lap. As he passed it back, he also gave me a short piece of string, with an invitation...
...make (was it a decimal point or wasn't it?) seemed momentously important. I got off this dilemma by doing the multiplication, writing the answers for both possibilities. The problem for the next parabola was equally simple: divide 4.5 into 22. Determined to take a short cut and do it in my head, I goofed, gave the wrong answer: 5. The third parabola's problem (adding five numbers up to four digits) was no trouble. It was all probably a matter of getting used to the conditions...
...strong fabric 2 in. wide, and at first it was reefed by a band around it to lower the shock of opening. When the falling speed was reduced still more, explosive bolts freed the recovery package, the parachute was unreefed and its powerful drag pulled the package a short distance away from the hot shell of the nose cone, preserving it from heat damage. Then a small, tough balloon popped out of the side of the package and was inflated with compressed air. An automatic knife cut its air hose, allowing the balloon to drag behind and making the chute...