Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will reduce the amount of gas passing through the whistle. The volume of sound will decrease, and so will the fuel's burning rate. If the valve is manipulated efficiently by some pressure-sensing instrument, it will keep the hot gas inside the rocket at constant pressure from take-off to burnout. Rocket walls can be made lighter, and the bird itself will fly higher...
...grossed an estimated $1,200,000. This year, Bill released The House on Haunted Hill. The picture cost $150,000, but he spent $250,000 manufacturing skeletons that dance off the screen and dangle out over the audiences. The gimmick has paid off so well that he expects to take in well over...
...from their men, stood the women, sweating heavily under their enveloping black garments, which left only hands and face exposed to the air. The rabbi walked down the gangplank supported by two of the Israeli policemen that he recently compared to "Hitler's Gestapo." When photographers tried to take pictures, Teitelbaum covered himself, mumbled, "Thou shalt not make unto thee graven images...
...signed author of these lines is neither a theologian nor a churchman, but 21-year-old Brunette Sue Ingersoll, a hairdresser and New Mexico's Miss Universe entrant, who defied her archbishop by insisting that she would take part in the contest despite his ban (TIME, July 20-27). With outside help-including at least one layman trained in theology-Contestant Ingersoll last week churned out statements to document her own vision of the matter. The real issue, said Sue, is what happens when a Roman Catholic finds the charismatic (supernaturally graced) side of the church at odds with...
...days before the strike, management explained that payroll clerks were also on strike. Other strikers lined up to collect up to a fortnight's back pay. But every week, workers lost more than $50 million in wages. Even if they win a 10? hourly wage hike, it will take them close to six months to make up for one week's lost wage...