Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such cases, came without warning. It could not have mattered whether Stalin was in earnest conference, or playing cards, or asleep. An artery in his brain, no longer able to withstand the pounding of the blood coursing through it under excessive pressure, blew out like a worn bicycle tire. Blood flowed into the brain cells of the surrounding grey matter, clogged them and made them useless. Then the blood began to clot...
...obsolete. Goodrich announced a process that could make rubber 50 times as fast as existing plants. Goodyear announced it was perfecting a new synthetic which might last the life of an automobile. Eight smaller tiremakers, operating as the Copolymer Corp. at Baton Rouge, were reported to have a rubber tire that would last 75,000 miles...
Last week the reformers made another try in the House of Commons, and were countered by Misery Martin with petitions bearing 512,735 signatures. People who want to reform the traditional British Sunday, complained one lady educator, are those who say: "Reading bores us, walking and cycling tire us, family reunions irritate us, museums and picture galleries are too clever for us, and the BBC sometimes expects us to concentrate our attention." The House rejected the reforms by a vote...
...Samuel Adrian Baugh (rhymes with law) was, indeed, lean (6 ft. 2 in., 175 lbs.), but the rawboned Texan from Sweetwater was far from fragile. What's more, he wanted to play football so badly that he spent hour after hour throwing a ball through a swinging auto tire to learn passing accuracy. The practice paid off. Baugh was an All-America quarterback in 1935 and 1936 and led his Texas Christian teammates to victory in both the Sugar and Cotton Bowls...
Automen, who have been talking of heavy competition next year, got the first real taste of what is to come. Putting the 1953 Dodge on display last week, President William C. Newberg announced that Dodge had spent $65 million to turn out a car "with everything new except the tire size." Newberg had another pleasant surprise: while prices of two models were raised slightly, four of the ten were cut from 53? to $258 under the 1952 line...