Word: shortness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Barn. In Philadelphia, officials gathered to kick off Fire Prevention Week were interrupted in mid-ceremony when a mechanical replica of Mrs. O'Leary's celebrated lantern-kicking cow short-circuited, began to smolder...
Said a senior civilian missileman in California last week: "There is really nothing we can do in the short term in the way of getting something up there that will match or surpass the Russkies. We can rejigger things, but that would be a stopgap measure and not a program. The important point-the crucial point-is that decisions must be made now if the future is to bear fruit...
Even Front Runner Jack Kennedy has been known to sigh in private that he might wind up on the short end of a Stevenson-Kennedy ticket. In the fall of 1959 Adlai Stevenson, twice victorious nominee, twice defeated presidential candidate, has as great a potential for the Democratic nomination...
...time grows short, Adlai Stevenson may lose some nervous adherents. (Says San Antonio Lawyer Maury Maverick Jr.: "I think he'd be a terrific candidate, but if I had to decide between a going-Jesse of a Lyndon Johnson and a reluctant Adlai, I'd be for Lyndon.") But most of Stevenson's rank-and-file support is likely to stick with him right down to convention time. And many a veteran delegate pledged to another candidate will feel that urge to merge with Stevenson again at the convention if the going gets close...
Concern started soon after Richard S. Morse, the Army's civilian Director of Research and Development, took his job last June. None of the VIPs had suffered any ill effects; neither did human volunteers who ate the foods for short periods. But experimental animals put on a long-term diet of irradiated foods had shown some alarming symptoms. Rats developed abnormal eyes, or bled, or died before their time. Bitches bore smaller-than-normal litters. Mice developed enlarged left auricles in their hearts, which interfered with their breathing and sometimes burst...