Word: tip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Gerald ("Gerry") McGeer, 59, bellicose Senator from British Columbia and Mayor of Vancouver, of a heart ailment; in Vancouver. For two years McGeer had been trumpeting warnings of War III, exhorting the U.S. and Canada to arm from the tip of Alaska to California because "the Northwest will become the Belgium of the future...
...helmsman, instead of the angry, seven-foot monster wheel of the first Cunarders, which flung men to the deck or threw them across the wheelhouse, there is finger-tip steering with a complex series of superhuman power boosters to swing the 140-ton rudder through churning seas. If the watch officer chooses, a gyro pilot will relieve the helmsman entirely and keep the ship on course. No leadsman need stand in the bow to take soundings, for the navigator has an acoustic-electric fathometer to tell him, at the press of a button, how much water is beneath the hull...
...campaign lines for 1948. Either could be used, depending on the political weather. If the world situation is sunny next January, Harry Truman can recommend his own tax-cut measure and get the credit for it in an election year. His crisis line could be taken as a tip that Harry Truman is also ready for dirty weather, prepared to treat 1948 as a short-of-war year, a time to face up to the threat of World War III and no time to change White House horses in midstream...
...first real proof of what coelophysis was like. Scientists had long suspected that something very much like him lived in the Triassic Period, but they had only a few bone fragments to go on. Now, the diggers believe that they can reassemble coelophysis from his pointed nose to the tip of his long tail. If so, they can fill in a tremendous gap in the study of dinosaur evolution...
...March in Las Vegas and then married him again in Hollywood, said she would now divorce him. Alan Stephan, "Mr. America of 1946," married Grace Pomazal, "Miss Quick Freeze." Hedy Lamarr's estranged husband, Actor John Loder, who had been pricked in a dueling scene, had a sword-tip cut from his thigh. And Actor Chester Morris broke his leg in two places dancing at a children's party...