Word: terrains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's capital, observed the Mundt committee's new counsel, Samuel Sears, is a "jungle." Last week, although Sears was eager to explore the bewildering terrain, the committee sent him home to his old Boston pastures...
...diesel crawler tractor with torque converter, only tractor in the world that can turn with power on both tracks (price: $30,000). Equipped with a pusher plate and working in combination with Harvester's new rubber-tired, high-speed earth mover (up to 25 m.p.h. across rough terrain), the tractor can load 48 tons of dirt in 60 seconds, a job that would take a man with a shovel ten days...
...Army is having trouble with its medium (48½-ton) M-47 tank, turned out by General Motors. The bug is a defective transmission screw in 6,450 M-47 and M48 tanks. On rough terrain, it drops loose and damages the transmission. Cost of repairs and replacement: over...
...politics as in warfare, the terrain of the battlefield is crucial. Unfortunately statehood bills must pass a chamber barricaded by a group of Southern Senators prepared to fight the admission of states which might send proponents of civil rights to Congress. In earlier years these Southerners have been able to win minority party support to combine the two statehood proposals into a single bill, and then use this twin measure as a target for filibustering...
...difficulty is that most of the terrain has been described in his earlier flights (As I Was Going Down Sackville Street, Going Native, etc.) It Isn't This Time of Year at All!, his "informal and unpremeditated autobiography," is a hunt over the old ground for neglected oddments of gossip and reminiscence. It contains many fine old chestnuts (such as George Moore describing William Butler Yeats as "looking like an umbrella forgotten at a picnic") and a few fresh ones (such as the same George Moore, affronted by a badly cooked omelette, summoning a policeman and saying sternly...