Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old kid from Georgia waited politely while his opponent for the next day's finals of the 1958 National Amateur golf championship toiled up the steep climb from the 18th hole. "I'm Tommy Aaron, Mr. Coe," he said. "I'm going to play you tomorrow...
...congressional delegation to the atoms-for-peace conference (see SCIENCE), New York's Representative Ludwig Teller checked in minutes after Physicist Edward Teller-developer of the hydrogen bomb and no kin to Ludwig -checked out. Before long, people were asking the lawmaker some pretty steep questions. "Dr. Teller," someone inquired (and the title was right, too, because Congressman Teller is a J.S.D.), "how do you transfer magnetohydrodynamic motion to plasma particles without energy depreciation?" Glibly shaking off the fallout, Democrat Teller summoned counterploys learned on Capitol Hill-e.g., "The matter requires further study...
Moscow's reddest carpet rolled out last week, not for a visiting Communist, but for a Homburged, blue-suited visitor who looked like what he is: a capitalist tycoon. On hand to greet the TU-104 jet that brought Cleveland Industrialist Cyrus S. Eaton (Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, Steep Rock Iron Mines) were crowds of children bearing flowers, and Soviet Minister of Agriculture Vladimir Matskevich bearing official greetings. Three years ago Eaton gave Matskevich's department a prize Shorthorn bull, which had nobly performed to improve the quality of Russia's herds...
...Evans (14,260 ft.) and there staged some weird exercises. Led by a tall, lean and weathered man in Alpine shoes, long, green wool stockings and climbing knickers, the airmen went on ever-lengthening hikes (from 90 min. to ten hours), ran up and down the steep slopes above timberline, leaped from boulder to boulder. Purpose: Air Force wanted to know whether the human organism can be preconditioned for the peculiar conditions and hazards of space travel...
...other doctor, five enlisted men) to Fairplay, Colo. (10,000 ft.), for hikes of up to three hours. Then he moved up 1.500 ft. to Hoosier Pass and laid on more hikes, extending eventually to ten hours (15 miles), plus intensive series of knee bends and sprints up steep slopes. By easy stages the team advanced to Evans...