Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mass of plastic material. One possibility: the earth's mantle (the 1,800-mile layer below the crust) may not be as plastic as has been thought. It may have mechanical strength, like brickwork, that keeps the earth out of shape. Another possibility: the bulges are supported by slow currents in the mantle, which push up the surface like massive bubbles in a spring...
When Nikita Khrushchev put a slow fuse on his threat to turn Berlin over to the East German authorities, he did not act capriciously. In both preceding crises of 1958, the United States reacted more impetuously than the Soviets had calculated; the six-month period of grace on the Berlin issue was designed to provide time enough so that doubt and dissension could germinate among the Western allies...
Almost all business, transport and industry began to slow down, but Frondizi's Labor Minister declared the strike illegal, and police quickly rounded up 350 Communist and Peronista labor leaders. Frondizi calmly boarded a DC-6 to keep his date in the U.S. By the time he arrived in Charleston, S.C., Argentina was at a standstill, except for troop-guarded public-utility plants, and the nation's oil workers had been drafted into the army...
...guidance and control purposes, solid-fuel rockets are normally loaded with fuel to full capacity. Thus when one of them is fired at a target short of the maximum range, something must be done to cut off or slow the thrust when the rocket reaches the necessary speed. The flow of liquid fuels can be controlled by valves or pumps. Comparable control can be achieved with solids, said Ritchey, by opening small apertures upstream from the nozzle. The gas that leaks out through them reduces the pressure in the combustion chamber, and the thrust falls...
...engineering, designing, new tools and dies, and a thousand and one other things were enormous. G.M. has already invested an estimated $200 million toward introducing its small car in August. Ford has laid out $150 million, hopes to come out in October. Chrysler has spent $100 million, after a slow start is hustling to come out early...