Word: starting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visitors will probably use Ray Carlsen on the mound. Carlsen, also a right-hander, led the E. I. B. L. with a 5-0, 1.19 ERA record, but he has never beaten the Crimson. He did not start in May, but pitched in relief...
...them. In an angry speech to his people, Tunisia's normally moderate and pro-Western Premier Habib Bourguiba cried: "There must be no more French troop movements. We are not at war with France, but we are at war with the remnants of colonialism in Tunisia. We start the battle of evacuation today." At the end of his speech the crowd took up the chant "Evacuation! Evacuation...
...spite of this unhappy start, the foundation and its funds managed to turn out a prodigious amount of work. The surprising thing about it is not that it made so many mistakes but that it made so few. To a far greater extent than any other foundation, it is a problem-solving agency on a grand scale, thinking up its own solutions and paying going institutions and campuses to try them...
Push v. Weight. Professors Morrison and Gold start off by challenging one of the most basic laws of all, the principle of equivalence. According to this rule, on which general relativity is built, a body's inertial mass (resistance to a push) is the same in a given gravitational field as its gravitational mass (weight). Morrison and Gold admit that every experiment tried so far has shown the two kinds of mass to be precisely equivalent, but they think the apparatus used may have been biased in favor of equivalence. Anti-matter,* they point out, is just as respectable...
After Gray claimed executive privilege, refusing to say whether the White House influenced him in giving Idaho Power what amounts to an interest-free loan for five years, Interior Secretary Fred Seaton testified. He said that he had been against the write-off from the start, that Idaho Power did not need the tax break. While Seaton conceded that Gray's action was legally correct, "I reiterate that I did recommend against issuance of the certificates and would do so again...