Word: stampedes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After months of tests, the Civil Aeronautics Administration last week stamped formal approval on the engines slated to power the first U.S. jet airliners. The power plants: Pratt & Whitney's J57 and J75, scheduled for 90% of the 250-odd jetliners on order (both Boeing's 707* and...
For a man with nothing to hide, Boss Beck's recent behavior had been highly peculiar. Within the past three weeks he had: 1) declined, pleading illness, to appear before a Senate subcommittee investigating misuse of union funds; 2) turned up, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, at the Miami...
The convoy pressed on through the curtain of hate. Inside the main building, authorities produced two refugees who had asked for repatriation interviews. As the crowd shrieked from the courtyard, one backed out. The visitors' only prize was a woman whose husband had failed to make good his escape...
America's major defect is accepting too much, d'Entreves maintains. For example, we make a professor feel too important. We consider lecturers stamped with infallibility. "In Oxford," he points out, "a professor is made to feel immediately that he couldn't matter less."
Up the hall sat a third inspector, confronting a big, soft, middle-aged man and his wife. The man was a factory worker. He had never joined a union. How, then, had he kept his job? The man squirmed. Well, he said, it had never been necessary to join. The...