Word: stressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midst of a smile and a wave as he left his Convair at Chicago's Midway Airport, Rocky suddenly froze when he saw her. Throwing up a defensive hand and moving away, he brusquely set the tone of an uncertain week: "I'd not like to stress anything political. I'm sorry...
Barrel Roll. Details of what happened next would have to await a Civil Aeronautics Board investigation. It may have been that Berke failed to correct with his left rudder in time, or inadvertently applied more right. The 707 flipped on its back. The gut-pounding stress was too much for the 248,000-lb. plane, and ordinarily the wings might have torn loose. But the 707 was designed to lose its engines under such strain, rather than its wings-and three engines ripped loose, plummeted to earth...
...nation that Americans needed desperately to study and to understand. Academic circles realized that American scholarship in the Russian field had been sporadic, disorganized and incomplete. And thus, in the spring of 1947, the Carnegie Corporation proposed the establishment of a program in Russian studies which would lay additional stress on the often neglected areas of psychology and anthropology...
...principal fault of the report, though, lay in its excessive stress on the danger of federal aid to education. In emphasizing that attaching "ideological strings" was a tendency of governmental aid, and recommending that that all federal aid should be held suspect, the report exceeded its mandate to report on the NDEA an delivered a thinly veiled attack on the concept of federal aid to education. The Council was right to order the new committee to "tone it down...
...skies above White Sands Proving Ground, N. Mex. Among the nation's warbirds, it is the most powerful (up to 500,000 lbs. thrust v. 400,000 Ibs. for the Atlas) and the fastest (more than 17,000 m.p.h.). At those speeds the Zeus encounters enormous heat and stress, and it broke up on its maiden flight in August. Last week's Zeus fell a bit short of its planned 100-mile course, but showed that the frame and propulsion system are basically solid...