Word: speeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile the ducks were nosing the foreign straw object with curiosity, while a collie dog ran up and down the shore barking. The swan boat changed course, pedaling full speed ahead towards the center of interest. "They're going to rescue my hat!" Jessie sighed in the tones of a movie heroine. And, indeed, the attendant was poking away the ducks with a pointed stick. After some sleight of boat and hand, he fished the hat out and proceeded on course...
...speed is arrested by the friction of the air, a small parachute will come out; finally a large chute will deploy and float the man in his capsule. Slowly, he will descend at about 30 ft. per second until he is let down, almost gently, in the Gulf of Mexico. There he will be rescued by a waiting ship of the U.S. Navy and brought back-a hero...
...either hand (hand-ballers consider rackets sissy stuff). The most difficult shot is a "fly kill." in which the player takes the ball in the air off the front wall, hits it against a side wall at a sharp angle so that it has lost nearly all its forward speed by the time it reaches the front wall, skitters off it and drops dead...
...patients who have a tendency to form kidney stones, doctors usually want to increase the flow of water through the system. And to speed it up, some have prescribed diuretics (of which no fewer than 109 are listed in the Physicians' Desk Reference) though this may be dangerous. Last week Urologist Julius H. Winer of the University of California Medical Center in Los Angeles reported in the A.M.A. Journal that he had confirmed what suds lovers have known for centuries: among his patients, "beer gave an adequate rapid diuresis in most cases." It is safe...
...economy was still picking up speed last week, with no signs that the recovery was leveling out. Items...