Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like "independent" Katanga, Mining State was the virtual creation of Belgium's powerful Societe Generale, which, through a company called Forminiere, for years held the concession to mine the world's biggest source of industrial diamonds. After independence came in 1960, the Belgians put their weight behind an eccentric Baluba chief named Albert Kalonji, and went right on mining diamonds while the Congolese central government floundered helplessly in Leopoldville. Wallowing in Forminiere's lavish tax and dividend payments, the bearded Kalonji donned a diamond-studded crown and leopard apron, found himself a scepter, and dubbed himself Kasai...
...house." a converted country lodge where 20 Ph.D.-level scientists putter about in a small laboratory. Out of the "think house" has come an idea that may hold great promise for Rolls's future-plans for a small auxiliary jet engine that can lift 16 times its own weight straight up. Rolls's hope is that as the supersonic age unfolds, the great jetliners will use such auxiliary jets to land and take off vertically, thereby eliminating the need for ever longer and more expensive runways...
Perhaps the most oppressive weight on Lodge is the superficial similarity between 'Teddy and George.' At 35, Lodge is only five years older than the Kennedy he calls a kid. Neither has held elective office; both have politically prolific families. "Teddy's campaign is to make us seem comparable," says Lodge. "It's not so much that I am five years older, but I have been working for fifteen years." This included six years in Washington as Undersecretary of Labor to Eisenhower and JFK. In response to the dynasty issue lodge emphasiszes, "If my father had been elected vice-President...
...football, and only three plays later the ball was laid on the Harvard 18. Switching to orthodox, short run plays, McCarthy then had his fellow backs assault the interior line until he had achieved the one yard line. Harvard's forward wall found it impossible to resist the superior weight that was thrown against them...
...refrigerator, at a temperature of 45° to 52° F.. or had it warmed to blood heat or higher. On cold formulas, the babies ate as much, and as fast, and kept their feedings down just as well. They slept as well, and gained weight at the same rate. Their own body temperatures dropped only an insignificant .2° F. on the cold formula. And in one way they were better off: even with the most expert nursing supervision, some of the warmed formulas occasionally got overheated, and the wrist test did not protect the babies against...