Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the $110 million George Washington joins the fleet in the fall of 1960, it will carry 16 solid-fuel, nuclear-nosed Polaris missiles (range: 1,500 miles) in its "silos," be capable of cruising for months on its water-cooled nuclear reactors, launch its birds without. surfacing (TIME, March 3, 1958). Its mission: to provide a mobile undersea missile base that Russia can never count on knocking out in a sneak ICBM attack...
...Angeles International Airport and taxied to the customs shack in a remote corner of the sprawling field. Out stepped a 56-year-old grandfather. "I've got 30 gallons of gas left," announced Max Conrad, "and I'd like to trade that for a glass of water." For Veteran Pilot Conrad, it had been a long time between sips of water. Carrying only a supply of coffee and tea, he had flown an incredible 7,683 miles nonstop from Casablanca in a 250-h.p., single-engined aircraft, beating by some 700 miles the previous distance record for light...
...Tenor) Stone was no more successful than the average iceberg. He combed the shipyards of Europe trying to find the chief prop for a new film called The Last Voyage, gave up in discouragement and sailed for home. At sea a day or so later, he looked over the water and saw a twin-stack, 44,000-ton liner slicing her way west at 23 knots. "That's the one," cried Stone. "I want...
...final Crimson score was registered in the seventh on a walk, a sacrifice, and a single by George Harrington. But by this time many of the spectators had lost interest in the contest and were busy fighting for places at the water fountain. So far as this reporter could see, everybody went home happy except for an elderly man named Ethan Allen and several little boys in blue...
...life; only the certainty that the temporal series is finite imports any worth to a given point or segment. An immortal man would not be a man; like an unshakeably secure God, he would lack the tragic perspective of the mortal and the limited in which alone value appears. Water has no value to a fish in the ocean--but in a desert: ultimate and absolute. Thus the longing for "eternal happiness" seems rather a fierce hunger for the actualization of value, for the full incarnation of the summum bonumin reality, existence. It's not that the saints are pictured...