Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seconds tightened as hundreds of eyes were fixed on the clock. Seven-fifteen (a.m.) . . . T minus 60 seconds ... 55 ... 50 ... 45 ... Said Walsh: "Helium disconnect has dropped; lox vent has closed." Then T minus one. Snapped Walsh: "Mark!" From the blockhouse came the word: "Ignition...
...Paul Walsh had a phone line hooked to the Washington office of his immediate superior, Dr. John P. Hagen, director of Project Vanguard. The same line was connected to telephones manned in the White House by Press Secretary James Hagerty and Presidential Aide Andy Goodpaster, ready to pass the word to Ike. "T minus ten," said Walsh. "Clear sky on launching complex . . . Minitrack clear." Pete Aurand took a horseshoe from a paper sack, spit on it, tossed it over his shoulder...
...good many intelligent people, who would be considered normally Republican, obviously admired Stevenson. 'Sure,' was the reply, 'all the eggheads love Stevenson, but how many eggheads do you think there are?' " Months later, Stew Alsop got around to identifying the man who introduced the word egghead to the modern political vocabulary. The "rising young Connecticut Republican" was Insurance Executive John deKoven Alsop, now 42, youngest brother of Columnists Joseph, 47, and Stewart, 43, and by all odds the least-known of the brothers Alsop. Indeed, precious few of generally Fair-Dealing Joe's and Stew...
...tables for beds. Said a stranded doctor: "It was touch-and-go as far as panic was concerned. We had no coordination and no one was there to organize the people into a cooperative group for the first 20 hours. You could actually feel the tension grow. A curt word here, a hard stare there...
...said, would soon publish the complete text of C.I.O.-A.F.L. President George Meany's recent speech on the state of the U.S. economy-"because we want our young people, who do not know what capitalism means, to learn about the drawbacks of your system, not from the words of Mr. Khrushchev, who is known to be anticapitalist, but from Mr. Meany, who supports capitalism." He was getting more playful as the conversation continued, and after one more critique of capitalism, he asked: "Is this propaganda?" He seemed delighted when Dick Scammon said: "In a word...