Word: soaring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...view of the steel strike's ugly impact. With 87% of the nation's steelmaking capacity shut down since mid-July, the strike had hindered urgent missile, space and nuclear-submarine programs. If the strike dragged on, secondary layoffs resulting from the steel famine would soar to 1,275,000 by the end of November, and 2,500,000 by the end of December-not counting the 500,000 striking Steelworkers...
...free men shape historic trends toward noble goals," he said, many of today's nettlesome problems will abolish themselves. "As the less developed nations succeed in establishing viable economies and raising their living standards, our own economy will soar to new heights and our technology will be challenged as never before. Burdensome surpluses-even those of wheat-will disappear. Enlarged demand throughout the world will have to be met by new methods, and more effective use of resources everywhere...
...probe (see SCIENCE) required a rocket thrust of at least 600,000 Ibs., twice the thrust of the U.S.'s most powerful rocket engine. The Soviet feat was all the more embarrassing to the U.S. because U.S. spacemen had been forced to postpone their moon shot, scheduled to soar on or near Sputnik I's second anniversary, when the Atlas-Able rocket that was supposed to do the job ignominiously blew up on its Cape Canaveral launching pad in a static test fortnight...
...Socialists dourly noted the President's airport remark that "in my country the name Adenauer has come to symbolize the determination of the German people to remain strong and free," complained that it was interference in German politics. The pollsters predicted that Adenauer's electoral strength would soar; it was bitter medicine for der Alte's enemies, who predicted his political downfall three months ago during the tussle with Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard...
...France) and bewildering in its diversity. Barely a seventh of it is the movie desert of The Sheik-the vast expanses of sand wind-blown into golden dunes. The rest is mostly rock: gravelly plains, dry river beds, lunar landscapes whose peaks soar to 11,000 feet above sea level and depressions of 50 to 100 feet below sea level...