Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What About Cromwell? At Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, where his plane landed for a brief stop, he was detained by immigration officials for questioning. When he emerged from the examination room, his plane had left, and there was no other due to go to Nyasaland for two more days. But Dr. Banda made the most of his stay. At an airport press conference, he bluntly declared that he had no use for moderates. "What about your Oliver Cromwell?" he shouted at British reporters. "Was he a moderate? No. He was a fanatic." Then, gesturing wildly, he exclaimed: "I'm ready...
...Stop and think before you drink...
...Plus Zero. Nehru himself, whose dreams have always run to government-run industry, giant dams, and steel mills and machine-tool plants, has come to realize that industrialization is being dragged to a full stop by the deadweight of the impoverished villages. He went to Gangad to dramatize his full backing of Bhave's plans of Bhoodan (gifts of land) and Gramdan (pooling of all community resources) in the hope that they will build a future of healthy peasant cooperatives. Speaking to audiences of thousands, as he walked from city to village to city, Bhave expressed his idea...
...Atlas that went into orbit (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) is technically called a 1½-stage rocket-a single engine plus ground-fired boosters. When its two booster engines stop firing, the main body, propelled by the central sustainer engine, flies out of the short cylindrical after-section that carries the boosters (see diagram). With the boosters gone, the sustainer engine has less dead weight to carry into space. In this particular model, the sustainer was designed to burn 13 seconds longer than in the regular models. Without this extra thrust, needed to put the Atlas into orbit, it would have...
...helped, but the new economy is too big for the Government to do more than nudge it along the road to recovery. Says Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson: "People should stop worrying about all the little things Government can do. There was a minimum of stimulation from the Administration. The basic resiliency showed up in business...