Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carriers. In keeping with its arguments, the Navy is pushing, despite the budget hold-down, for a $375 million dreamboat: a second atomic-powered carrier to join the Enterprise, now abuilding. So taken is Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke with the atomic carrier's virtues-speed, range and freedom from refueling problems, except for aircraft fuel-that, to get another one, he is even willing to see a slowdown in procurement of atomic-missile subs...
...east there followed tropical Gabon, the mineral-rich Republic of Congo, and big (496,000 sq. mi.), semi-arid Chad. Though France had expected its territories to act as they did, there seemed little doubt that the announcement from Accra had brought on the sudden burst of speed...
...dull before the second or third reading. The two traits well combined make for what the uninitiated call good writing; they are best combined here in an excerpt from a picaresque novel by Richard Robinson, and in at least two poems, "Epithalamion, 4 A.M." by Stephen Sandy, and "To Speed and Greta" by Richard Sommer...
...full title of Richard Sommer's poem is "To Speed and Greta: A Word About Your Friend, Dead in Ambush; Algeria, November 1, 1957." It is a kind and wise, but realistic "Word." Sommer talks in verse about the memory of a dead friend and troubling inadequacies of memory. The metaphor of "masks" and "manikin" creates a speculative whole that reveals with emotion the sense of emptiness a death creates. One or two lines are too harsh for the general tone of the poem, however...
...there were scattered signals of slowdown. After a steep rise in recent months, steel production leveled to 74.3% of capacity, slightly below the rate of early November. No major production gains are expected unless and until automakers speed their steel orders. Applications for FHA mortgage insurance on new homes slipped 14% from September to October, a sign that housing starts may dip later...