Word: twins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Twin Pillars. EDC is designed to dovetail the armies of Western Europe so that none can be easily withdrawn for aggressive adventures of its own. This is a more complicated ambition than simple rearmament; the result is a complicated blueprint. At the top, EDC will have 1) a Council of Ministers, 2) an 87-man Assembly, 3) a nine-man Commissariat, serving as a six-nation general staff. Together, EDC and the Schuman Coal-Steel Plan will form the military and economic pillars of a still more visionary federation: the U.S. of Europe...
...question remained: Who was fooling whom? Three days later, London ordered that a zone be prepared for an "important drop." In the early hours of March 28, at an isolated spot near Steenwijk, the Germans signaled in a twin-engine bomber on a triangle of lights. Silhouetted against the moonlight, the bomber swept down to 600 feet, as the Germans wondered if the important drop would turn out to be bombs. An instant later, five "gigantic black shadows" parachuted down-four containers of material, and an agent. The British had seemingly forgotten their own verification checks, and handed over...
...more expensive and complex fighter planes, Britain's small Folland Aircraft, Ltd. is building a light, simple jet fighter, the Gnat, that could be produced in swarms to fight off bombers. Weighing only 5,500 Ibs. (v. 16,500 for the Sabre jet), the Gnat will carry twin 30-mm. cannons, and climb to 40,000 feet in less than five minutes. Northrop, Lockheed and North American have also proposed building lightweight jets, and the Air Force will soon ask U.S. plane builders to submit plans...
...attached to a different organic molecule. This permits chemists to create innumerable new substances, many of which are sure to have valuable properties. Even with hydrazine scarce and expensive, some hydrazine derivatives have already reached the market: drugs, insecticides, explosives and photographic developers. Soon hydrazine's magic twin nitrogen atoms may show up in dyes, detergents, plastics and synthetic fibers...
Puzzled, the researchers asked Mrs. McK. whether she was a twin. No less puzzled by their apparent second sight, Mrs. McK. replied that she had had a twin brother, who died when three months old. That explained it, they figured: in the womb there had been a connection between the arteries of the fraternal twins, and Mrs. McK. had picked up some of her brother's blood-making cells...