Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report in 1945, the world has known that controlled fission reaction is possible in an atomic pile, releasing heat slowly over a long period of time. If a safe and economical way to harness this heat to a steam turbine could be devised, it would be an ideal propulsion unit for a submarine. Rickover persuaded the AEC to begin work on a pilot model...
...usually jovial Representative Frank Boykin boiled up, introduced in Congress a sweeping resolution designed to stop the Army from breaking up National Guard divisions. Among its provisions: "In any case where a division of the . . . National Guard shall have been ordered into the active military service of the United States, no unit or component of such division shall be separated, detached, or otherwise removed from the jurisdiction of such division...
Cool Logic. In Phoenix, after crossing the burning Mojave desert in a car fitted with 50 Ibs. of ice and an air-conditioning unit, plus a block of dry ice on the floorboard, Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Larnce pulled into a service station to find out what made the car so warm, learned that their heater...
Among her gifts to the party were two sons. One, Harold Ware, spent ten years in Russia, was complimented by Lenin himself for helping to develop mechanized farming in the Soviet Union. Ware organized the Communist espionage unit in Washington to which Whittaker Chambers was assigned. In 1935, Ware was killed in an automobile crash. The second son, Carl Reeve, 50, has been a paid party functionary most of his adult life, goes about party work with a fish-eyed frigidity, reflects the party's shift from wrong-headed but warm radicalism to institutionalized conspiracy...
...other. Neither side threw any haymakers, nor did either side drop its guard. A U.N. task force clanked out beyond the front lines and into Pyonggang at the apex of the "Iron Triangle" on the east-central front, found the battered town deserted, drew back again. A British Commonwealth unit, marooned in Red territory north of the Imjin when that river flooded, competently muffled Communist thrusts for five days until bridges were restored for a withdrawal. North of Hwachon, the Communists ended the week with a battalion-sized attack. U.N. airmen, including Australians in Meteor jets, bored through rain...