Word: skyhigh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...likes to ski, takes his Scotch with water. When Lincoln's town fathers refused Explosives Expert Kistiakowsky a permit to dynamite some stumps on his acreage, he flashed the Manhattan Project Medal for Merit citation awarded him by President Truman, got a green light-and blew the stumps skyhigh...
...creating them," says San Francisco Social Worker Janet Pence, who recently retired her 1951 Hudson in favor of a pale blue Volkswagen. "When it became difficult to park downtown, we were greeted each year with a longer car. When the price of gas and oil went skyhigh, we were asked to buy gas guzzlers. Well, we plan to become a two-car family soon, just as Detroit advises. But we're getting another Volkswagen...
...oldest tricks of political self-preservation is shooting the (fire) works. With food prices skyhigh, unsanitary housing, insufficient transportation, Poles rioting, Hungarians grumbling, Chinese thinking, a guy has to do something to stay in business ; Nikita therefore had to shoot the sputnik to give them something to shout about. Their "moonitchko" is only the result of a desperate gamble to catch the imagination (of the Russians) and the headlines (of the West). To yell at our own scientists and planners because they are taking their time to produce a product for space research is merely harmonizing with Nikita...
...steel executive who runs a transcontinental railroad with the same chilling efficiency she displays in bed with various deserving tycoons. But dauntless Dagny is having troubles. Her railroad keeps breaking down. The best businessmen begin to vanish mysteriously. Oilfields flame in the night, copper mines are destroyed, docks blow skyhigh, steel mills collapse in chaos. Finally Dagny catches on: her fellow capitalists have gone on strike...
After that, morale at the barracks was skyhigh. When citizens called up to report the presence of Russian tanks or the whereabouts of the AVH, the Freedom Fighters forayed out to do battle. A week later the Soviet army returned in strength and tried to blast the Freedom Fighters out of Kilian barracks. Peter Szanto was one of the last to leave. He came out through a hole in the back wall after a delegation of local people had pleaded with the Fighters to stop the battle because the neighborhood was in ruins. When he reached home, Peter learned that...