Word: slower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adenauer to accept the German Peace Contract and EDC, without which Western Europe would not trust the Germans with arms. When war broke out in Korea, the Pentagon called him home and announced that it wanted a German army within six months. McCloy said no; the development must be slower, else European unity would be imperiled. For weeks of table-thumping debate, McCloy and his sly, dry wit seemed to be everywhere at once: chivvying nervous Frenchmen who feared German rearmament, rebuking truculent Germans who seemed always to want more...
...Light moves slower in a denser medium. So when a "wavefront" of light passes at an angle from dense cold air into less dense warm air, the part that reaches the warm air first races ahead of the remainder. This "refraction" has the effect of bending the wave-front toward the cold...
Five and a half feet longer and 25 m.p.h. slower than the stripped-down MIG-15, the new "Type 15" probably has a longer range, thus might be useful if the Communists decide to try something they haven't dared before: low-level attacks on the U.N.'s fighter-plane bases in South Korea. MIG-15s presumably could not go that far and back from their Manchurian sanctuary...
John Peter Frank was a curly-haired, dark-eyed baby who seemed perfectly normal at birth and for the first few months of his life in Bloomington. Ind., where his father was teaching law at the state university. True, Petey seemed slower than most babies in trying to roll over and sit up, but his parents thought little of it. One steaming day in Washington, D.C., Petey fainted and was sick for a while; the doctor thought it was only the heat. A second seizure was laid to an ear infection. The third time, a doctor gave the verdict...
...Whoa. Contrary to popular belief, sled dogs, which are not necessarily pure-bred Siberian Huskies, are docile, though a team often gets some ankle nipping from the team it is passing. Once in front, the lead team tends to set a slower pace, but a passed team, in a frenzy of competitive spirit, redoubles its efforts to take the lead. The driver's commands are simple and horsy: "Gee" for right, "Haw" for left, "Whoa" (more hopefully than convincingly) for stop. A steel-toothed prong, controlled by a foot pedal, digs into the snow to make the "Whoa" stick...