Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RECESSION . Such easy-money Democrats as Texas' Representative Wright Patman are expected to sound off at length against the evils of the Administration's tight money policy, but the legislative leaders do not expect much more than talk; the possibility of a program of recession-fighting legislation, as of Congress' opening, seemed remote...
...surprising reaction in Washington," wrote New York Timesman James Reston, "was that the two leaders made [the NATO meeting] sound worse than it really was." Even Columnist Doris Fleeson, whose ardent Stevensonian viewpoint would ordinarily give little reason for applauding anything done by Republican Dwight Eisenhower in Paris, noted that the Eisenhower-Dulles speeches "made the Paris results seem less effective than they actually were. For it is no mean feat to hold a defensive alliance together when an aggressor seems to be going strong. This was achieved in Paris against odds." Far from using the NATO conference...
...superior to those of unmanned vehicles. Last week the Air Force announced that it would contract with Los Angeles' North American Aviation, Inc. for development of the WS (for weapon system) -110A, an intercontinental bomber hopefully designed to fly at Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound) at altitudes ranging to 125,000 ft. The so-called "chemical bomber" will use not the ordinary fuels such as kerosene and gasoline but materials probably composed, in part, of boron, an element of the familiar household cleansing chemical borax...
...West would call him crazy, said Nikita. His answer was to quote a Russian proverb: "The dog barks and the wind carries the sound away." Barked Nikita: "This program is stronger than the H-bomb. If we catch up with the U.S., we will have hit the pillars of capitalism with the most powerful torpedo...
...Hatta pointedly underscored what every informed Indonesian knew already: that the country has almost no navy or air force and could not possibly take Netherlands New Guinea forcibly no matter how belligerently Sukarno & Co. may sound off in Djakarta. "Our youth." said Hatta, "should not be asked to swim across the ocean to get West Irian. It is not through war that we will get back West Irian but by peaceful ways and means...