Word: unsetting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tilt Toward Britain. Still unset tled is the question of who will make the powerful fanjet engines for the DC-10. American Airlines engineers lean toward the British Rolls-Royce RB.211, partly because they expect it to be cheaper as well as quieter than any comparable (33,000-40,000 Ibs. thrust) U.S.-built power plant. The potential drain on the U.S. balance of payments may tip the decision in favor of General Electric's CF6, which was derived from G.E.'s TF39, designed for Lockheed's far larger C-5A military transport...
...profusely illustrated volume worthy of deposit on any drawing-room table. Ivory Hammer 2 is the second annual report to be published in the U.S. It reprises the 1963-64 season, during which Sotheby's knocked down an unprecedented $37 million worth of art, from an 11.80-carat unset emerald ($65,800) to the bugle that blew the charge of the Light Brigade ($4,480). More than 250 illustrations, some in color, all priced in pounds and dollars, plus-for no good reason-an original short story by Wolf Mankowitz about an imaginary sale at Sotheby...
...most significant victory of the season, Meehan led the harriers to an unset win over a strong Brown team, as he took a close first place...
Once a year Sol Nazerman's joyless routine is unset. His family had died in August, and each Summer, like the recurrence of some odd tropical disease, the memory of their torture returns to him. Sol's nights become long, sleepless nightmares; during the day, to the astonishment of his Puerto Rican apprentice, he fumbles through business in a trance, unaccountably appraising brass as gold. In one such August, the pawnshop is robbed; the apprentice-whom Author Wallant. with a disturbingly heavy hand, has called Jesus Ortiz-steps in front of a bullet meant...