Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Certain other issues further discourage European confidence in America. The segregation incidents, of course, weigh heavily on Continental consciences, fed by the leftist press and Communist agitators. Across the Channel, Great Britain still harbors considerable resentment over Washington's role in the Suez affair...
...books from him. One day, in a fit of conscience, she decides to make good her theft-but while the books she stole were on archaeology, the ones she returns are about law. The girl cannot understand her employer's anger: "They're the same bindings . . . They weigh just the same . . . Five there were, and five there are now." Not all of Author Moravia's works weigh the same; these stories are considerably lighter than the best of his novels (The Fancy Dress Party, Conjugal Love). But while Moravia's stories may lack charity and depth...
...evidence of this reluctance, Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel of California urged the U.S. to "weigh carefully" any Indian loan: "Her foreign policy is of course her own business. But, it seems to me, America's helping hand ought to be extended to nations which share our goals." Countered one of the Democrats' leading lights on foreign affairs, Montana's Senator Mike Mansfield: "I believe that underneath this neutralism, India would, if the chips were down, be on the side of the West. Our faith in India's future may well be the decisive factor...
...director of Project Vanguard, Hagen said that, starting this fall, four grapefruit-size satellites will be launched to test radio-tracking systems for the six major satellites that will begin to go up next spring. This fall's minor moons will be only 6.4 in. in diameter, weigh only 3.25 lbs. They will be launched at Florida's Patrick Air Force Base by the same type three-stage rocket that next spring will catapult into space the full-size satellites, which will be 20 in. in diameter, weigh 21.5 lbs. Hagen thinks the test satellites will stay aloft...
...goal. Though most of the industry has scaled 1957's sales forecast down to about 5.8 million cars, production last week was still rolling along at a rate of better than 6,000,000 cars annually, building up an inventory of unsold cars that is beginning to weigh heavily on dealers. As of Aug. 1, U.S. auto dealers had 750,808 unsold 1957 models, 7% less than 1955's record production year, but 22% more than in August last year...