Word: tremor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final score on the Battle of the Budget was still beyond calculation. It remained to be seen, for example, how much or little of Congress' cuts would in fact have to be made up with deficiency appropriations. In 1960, say, after the last tremor of the 1957 budget battle has died away, a university professor may wangle a Ford Foundation grant to figure out the score. If, with the help of half a dozen accountants and an electronic brain, he comes up with a fair and accurate estimate, it will be a lot smaller than Harry Byrd...
Leet felt that yesterday's tremor was "a sort of repeat" of "the Ossippee quakes of 1940," which he described as "somewhat larger than this...
Weston scientists blamed yesterday's tremor on "some breakage in the earth's surface." Leet said that the Northeast has nothing comparable to the celebrated "San Andreas fault," which has been the cause of numerous spectacular earthquakes in the Pacific coast area...
...Leet, professor of Geology and the University's earthquake expert, called yesterday's early morning tremor "moderate in intensity" and said that it was part of a "pattern" which may bring a major quake to the northeastern U.S. "within twenty-five or fifty years...
...Commandant Leonard D. Heaton, half a dozen of the hospital's department heads worked over Prince Mashhur. Their conclusion: he had suffered a brain injury at his birth. The result is akin to cerebral palsy, though the child has no tremor. Abnormal nerve impulses to muscles in the right leg have shortened the heel cord (Achilles' tendon); its shortness forces the prince to walk on the toes and ball of the foot...