Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cavity is filled with powerful sound, thus accomplishing total cutoff with the whistle. The big spaceships that NASA plans to toss into space will use clusters of rocket engines. If they are solid fueled and equipped with whistles, they could be used to steer the ship; a slight reduction of sound level in one of the outside engines would make the whole ship veer in its direction...
...Sunday Times, Kemsley preserved its status as Britain's leading Sunday paper. Wrote the competing Observer last week: "K. has ruled not only as proprietor but as editor in chief . . . His arrival in his Rolls at Kemsley House was awaited with awe: with fine white hair, a slight stoop and a gentle manner, he presided with the deep, resonant voice expected of proprietors, and scarcely a trace of a Welsh accent...
Rockets get their zip by means of a restrained explosion; the rapidly burning propellant must generate hot gases at precisely the right pressure. If the pressure is too low, the rocket does not fly; too high, and it bursts like a bomb. Very slight defects or miscalculations can raise the pressure to the danger point. The rocket can explode if the nozzle is a few thousandths of an inch too small. A solid propellant may crack, sharply increasing the burning rate. Unburned propellant can block the nozzle, or flame can burn a hole in the thin casing. As any Cape...
Leader of the four was blond, slight Jake Breitenbach, 24, a guide at Wyoming's Petzoldt-Exum School of American Mountaineering. Like Jake, the others were young, but experienced beyond their years in their perilous art: Ski Instructors Pete Sinclair, 23, and Barry Corbet, 22; Math Teacher Bill Buckingham, 22, a member of the American Alpine Club...
...Thus Kiwi-A's innards are probably made of tricky, heat-resistant metals such as tungsten, tantalum and molybdenum. Control is far more difficult than with chemical engines, because the flow of hydrogen must be balanced perfectly against the production of energy by the reactor. A slight maladjustment of the controls might melt the nuclear engine in seconds or blow it to smithereens...