Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been in operation, the big (more than 250,000 Ibs., full loaded) jet tanker has met and passed every performance requirement set down for it, broken longstanding flight records, never been in a major accident. This kind of performance encouraged Boeing in its plans to produce a commercial version of the KC-135 (some of which will be in operation by major airlines by the end of the year), and encouraged the Air Force's Special Air Missions squadron to assign three passenger models to Washington for use by the President and other top U.S. dignitaries...
Competing against low temperatures and a drizzle, Alfred Nash Patterson conducted a worthy semi-concert version of Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes, probably the finest British opera since Purcell's Dido...
...been cleaned of its incrustations, shows the debated Gallic harvester. It has two wheels and a comb of teeth, just as Pliny said, and a box to catch the heads of grain. In front, carrying a shovel-like implement, is a laborer. The only important deviation from the Pliny version is that the motive power appears to be a mule instead of oxen...
...fall, buyers turned to the "relaxed look," a slimmer, trimmer, tighter version of the chemise. One fast comer is the empire style-a bust-emphasizing high waist with a flaring skirt. Fall dresses will be two or three inches shorter than last fall's models, and colors will be gayer and splashier...
...version of that, and over at the poolroom he tries to make the kid understand. "Look, kid," he says...