Word: spat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...money, and declared after the bank rate rollback that "there was no feeling that the President was putting the heat on bankers." As for the council's future relations with Government, which were somewhat strained when it broke away from the Commerce Department in 1961 after a spat with Luther Hodges, Murphy says: "Our relations with the President are close and good, and we intend to maintain them that...
...such objections are out of date, insists U.T.C.'s Ordahl. He admits that early hybrids spat unburned propellants out their nozzles, but he claims that the habit has been cured by baffles that keep the propellants from escaping before they have mixed and burned. Baffles and other improvements, says Ordahl, have boosted combustion efficiency to 90% in some U.T.C. hybrids. Aerojet-General Corp. has a different kind of baffle that is said to get 95% . The Reaction Motors Division of Thiokol Chemical Corp. believes that good burning under variable conditions can best be had by injecting extra oxidizer near...
...with a cut that took eight stitches to close. "No more of this ain't gonna happen to me," muttered Alonzo Johnson, the seventh to quit. The hero of the hour was a pug named "Big Train" Lincoln, who managed to absorb 35 rounds of punishment before he spat out a tooth and sighed: "This is a hell of a way to make a living." Trimmed down to svelte...
...Warren Commission, was "tumultuous." For days, the city's officials and editorialists had exhorted the people to give a hearty, nonpartisan welcome to their President. They were still smarting from the bad publicity that Dallas had received a month earlier when a band of right-wingers jostled and spat at Adlai Stevenson...
...thought that the floor debate on the Republican platform was incredible to behold. The determined vindictiveness and deliberate refusal, evidenced by most of the delegates, to consider rational appeals was a sterling example of the extremism they refused to condemn. Lincoln's body was exhumed, publicly spat upon, and dumped into the icy Bay waters. The destalinization of Russia could not have been more complete than was the de-Lincolnization of this Republican Convention...