Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With 8,000 flying hours, he ranks second in Air Force seniority (first: Chief of Staff Twining). A four-star flyer entrusted with one of the nation's most vital commands, he is unpublicized and virtually unknown. But in 36 years of service he has piled up vast all-round experience. He has been a pursuit pilot, a flight instructor, one of the early 6-17 pilots who worked out U.S. long-range bombing techniques. A top technician, he helped to develop retractable landing gear, variable pitch propellers, and a long line of U.S. combat planes. In World...
...spot where Charles I was condemned to the scaffold and Cromwell proclaimed Lord Protector, where Britain's dead kings are mourned and its new ones feted, Sir Winston Churchill stood last week and received his country's heartfelt tributes on his 80th birthday. Before him, vast Westminster Hall (hard by the House of Commons) was packed with top-hatted peers and tiaraed peeresses, members of Parliament and their wives, from closest allies to such old antagonists as Aneurin Bevan...
...still has a pronounced bulge around the navel, most parents get panicked about what the doctor calls umbilical hernia. It is customary then to strap the navel with adhesive, and in many cases surgery is advised. Needless, said Dr. Lawson. Even the bandages often cause skin irritation, and the vast majority of umbilical hernias disappear if left alone. Operations, he suggested, are unnecessary before the age of eight-and after that, they will be rare...
...fishing village on the coast of Maine, paints Maine's rocks, trees and seas subjectively and with intimate under standing; nature forms the architecture of his world. Thon's luxurious frame house, which he has built with his own hands, is like one room in the vast, roughhewn, sky-ceilinged mansion of his surroundings. His self-appointed task is to translate those surroundings into a few square feet of painted canvas-to bring the outdoors indoors and hang it on a wall...
...Asia would "leapfrog the conventional fuel systems" and hurry on to higher living standards with atomic reactors that would also "propel . . . Africa, Free Europe and Latin America into the 21st century . . . Dollars per se are no longer power . . . If we do not use industrial atomic energy to ... create vast new world markets for our products . . . we shall have doomed ourselves to an inferior competitive position, second to the Soviet Union...