Word: slimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glide missile, Eggers says, should be shaped rather like a child's paper dart (see cut). The slim conical body should have a blunt point, which does not get as hot at hypervelocity as a sharp point does. The leading edges of the wings and fins should be blunt too. This shape should radiate away enough frictional heat to keep the temperature of its skin below the softening point...
Tunisian Ambassador Mongi Slim called on France to set aside "narrow nationalism" and use the good offices of his country and Morocco in bringing about a settlement. He asserted France was "completely in error" if it felt that the three-year-old rebellion could be ended through legislative reform...
...work in Suite 4E924 of the Pentagon, where he is soon stirring up memorandums and directives-green for LeMay, pink for able Air Force Secretary James Douglas, white for his staff. Around him hangs the sense of illustrious predecessors: husky, flamboyant "Hap" Arnold; sinewy, battle-tried "Tooey" Spaatz; slim Hoyt Vandenberg, the old flyer with a 50-mission crush in his cap; Nate Twining, the wise old pilot who led the USAF from props to jets. There Tommy White does his broad-gauge best with what he has. But nobody in the Pentagon knows better than he that...
...member of Detroit's non-partisan city council. A World War II pilot making his debut in politics, Patrick promised to serve as "a representative of the total' community." ¶ In Bridgeport, Conn. (pop. 292,000), 79-year-old Socialist Mayor Jasper McLevy was beaten by a slim 161 votes in a try for his 13th consecutive term. The winner: Democrat Samuel J. Tedesco, 42, who accused McLevy of undue conservatism and of standing pat while the city deteriorated.* But even Tedesco had regrets, saying: "I'm sorry it had to be Jasper. I accept the election...
...those families where polygamy is still practiced-particularly among the rich-the women often take a sophisticated view. In Manhattan, a slim, exquisitely gowned wife of an Eastern diplomat argued that taking a second wife was no different from the Western practice of taking a mistress. "The problem of the man who wants more than one woman is as old as humanity. We don't think the Western nations have found a really better solution...