Word: sliver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diversions. With a flourish of phrases ("faithful to its policy of ensuring peace") Radio Moscow announced that Russia was now "ready to examine" President Eisenhower's "open sky" aerial inspection plan. deployment" between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces, which would allow the West to inspect satelliteland and a sliver of Russia, but permit Russian planes to fly over a disarmed Germany, most of France, and half of Britain...
...engine of his Bluebird speedboat whining at a frightening pitch, Donald Campbell streaked over Coniston Water, a banana-shaped sliver of England's Lake District, at 286 m.p.h., dropped to a modest clip on the return run, but averaged 225.63 m.p.h., to break his own world's record of 216.02 m.p.h. set last November at Lake Mead...
Says Early: "There's no reason for a doctor to send Johnny off to a pediatrician to have a boil lanced or a sliver removed, just because Johnny is under twelve. Yet an internist is supposed, ethically, to send all patients under twelve to pediatricians. There's no reason why a general practitioner can't do most minor surgery and most obstetrics. If there's anything unusual about a case he'll call in a specialist anyhow." General Practitioner Early starts practice this week in Lemon Grove (pop. 20,000), nine miles from San Diego...
...newest wonder in U.S. industry is the transistor, a sliver of germanium or silicon no bigger than a shoelace tip, with wisps of wire attached. It is the missing electronic link that is making possible a host of new devices, e.g., a wrist radio, a hearing aid so tiny that it fits inside an eyeglass frame. In a jet fighter the use of transistors cuts 1,500 Ibs. from the plane's weight. Last week the mighty mite had the electrical industry racing madly to expand transistor production: Motorola is putting up a $1,500,000 plant in Phoenix...
Life with Mother. In Hamburg, Germany, Gerda Thimm, 22, was sentenced to six years in prison for mistreating her husband by 1) dropping acid into his ears while he slept, 2) attempting to slip a razor-blade sliver under his eyelid, 3) putting rat poison...