Word: weight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Picasso's cubism radically affected the course of modern art, but it is now clear that it failed to establish itself as the Grand Manner of the 20th century. As an apparatus to carry the full weight of modern man's deepened and often troubled sensibility, it has proved inadequate. Picasso himself, no man to cultivate the hinterland after exploring a new area's boundaries, pushed on, leaving a generation of less gifted painters to work laboriously through its implications...
...cooled v. liquid-cooled engines, is over solid rocket propellants v. liquid rocket propellants. Most big rockets, including both Intercontinental and two of the three Intermediate-Range missiles, now use liquid fuels with an oxidizer such as nitric acid or hydrogen peroxide. Liquid systems have produced the highest thrust-weight ratio (80 Ibs. for each i Ib. of weight), but they require an enormously complex system of tanks, valves, pumps and generators. To feed and control its monster engines North American must have pumps capable of 8,000 gal. per minute (enough to empty...
...several kinds of fish. Uncooked green peas keep their shape but become as light as miniature ping-pong balls. Freeze-dried chicken breasts look like balsa wood. For gourmets, freeze-dried foods offer some interesting possibilities. Chicken or fish could be made to soak up several times their weight of wine or other flavorsome liquid...
Knight swung his weight behind F.D.R. six months before Pearl Harbor, supported the Marshall Plan "with misgivings." A Taft supporter when he visited Ike in May 1952, Knight sensed immediately that Eisenhower "had a fresher and more modern approach." The publisher's vigorous support of Eisenhower earned him the President's "admiration and warm regard" -the phrase Ike wrote on the signed photograph that still faces Jack Knight's desk...
...cardinal's words had extra political weight because under Russian persecution, even more than under foreign partition, the church was a symbol of freedom. The story is told of a man in church during the bitter pre-Gomulka days who remained standing during Mass. His neighbors tugged at his sleeve, but he stubbornly refused to kneel. "I'm an atheist," he explained. "Then why do you come to Mass?" they asked. "Because," he said, "I'm against the government...