Word: swingeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turned back the pleas of both Vice President Nixon and Secretary of State Dulles; he was, in fact, highly irritated by U.S. insistence that the Russians were withholding the truth, as well as the eleven men. State decided to give the Russians just one more chance: perhaps Mikoyan would swing around after he returned to Moscow and talk it over with other officials...
...pros have long feuded with Democratic National Committee Chairman Paul Butler, who is much too intransigently liberal for their tastes. Since Butler helped swing the convention for Los Angeles, a change of site might force his resignation...
This, along with the fact that board rates have gone up each year for the last three years, would seem to indicate that the University's "onward and upward" campaign is in full swing. What this means, of course, is that increases of one kind or another will continue each year, until Harvard's "expansion phase" begins to level off. In addition, since it appears that the Program will not achieve its goal of $82.5 million by June, 1959, its failure is only one more reason to expect continued increases in student costs. In the words of one Administration official...
Another control problem is how to supply small bursts of power to alter the course of a rocket deep in space, to land it softly on the moon or swing it around Mars. Fuel systems now in use do not operate efficiently at low throttle, and once the fuel is turned off they cannot be re-ignited easily. Last week the Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake, Calif, unveiled a fuel system that could solve this problem. It uses hypergolic fuel, i.e., two fluids that ignite as soon as they come in contact. A feed mechanism (using...
Even as most undergraduates are reaching the climax of their annual post-exam binges, 12 Harvard athletic squads will swing back into action during the coming weekend. For those who are sober enough to care, two or three varsity contests should prove of more than passing interest...