Word: words
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...businessmen studied the new autos with a keen eye, they also looked long at another economic factor to be reckoned with in the months to come: inflation. Everyone hears a lot about inflation; the talk is fraught with semantic difficulties because everyone has a different definition of the word, and thus a different assessment of the danger. For a sensible definition and an idea of how far away the U.S, is from real inflation, see BUSINESS, Inflation: Unlikely...
Forty minutes off Nantucket, Pilot John Burnham, 37, checked for a weather report with Cape Cod's Otis Air Force Base. He got welcome word: visibility at the island was four miles, with scattered clouds at 12,000 ft. Burnham zeroed in on Nantucket-and ran into one of the island's murky flash fogs, rolling in from the sea with bewildering speed. Burnham, using Nantucket's Visual Omni Range beam, prepared for an instrument approach. But the fog thickened until even VOR was ineffectual. With its field socked in, Nantucket tried to warn the Convair...
...general himself-proud, dedicated, remote, positive, full of paternal silences and prestigious mysteries. This week he is off on a 14,000-mile jet tour of Madagascar, Equatorial and West Africa, to sell a simple yes response to his package that with one word will commit all Frenchmen, whatever their questions and reservations, to the course he has set for them...
...mother and Billy Graham think he should have been a minister. He himself thinks perhaps he should have tried to be a missionary, like Albert Schweitzer. Some of television's unseen but much-heard word merchants think he would have made a fine gag writer. Walter Winchell plainly thinks he should have been put into an ablative nose cone on a one-way rocket trip to the moon. Sponsors of late movies think he should have stayed in daytime television, and all across the land, people who like to go to sleep early think he should have stood...
...After a brief dip in the pool ("I spend all my time keeping it clean and I'm seldom in it"), Jack settles down with a Jack Daniel's softened by water. "Do you know that right now, tonight, there is not one single written word, and now-WHAT TIME is IT? We're in panic...