Word: eavesdrop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...produce a living art, instead of a passive acceptance of "great names," America must separate its high and middle cultures, MacDonald warned. "Let the majority eavesdrop if they wish," he said, "but their tastes in art should be ignored...
Subs & Ferrets. First step is to learn as much as possible about the enemy's equipment. This is done by submarines and "ferret" planes that eavesdrop on enemy radars and try to record the electronic voices of interceptors and guided missiles. Every shred of information is analyzed, including false information, and a fair idea of the enemy's electronics is built...
...startled by Schevill's request. He is always asking colleagues to eavesdrop on sperm whales-not when the whales are puffing and blowing on the surface, but while they are submerged. Schevill wants to pin down once and for all the ancient reports that big (up to 65 ft.) sperm whales "talk" to each other beneath the surface, although they have no vocal cords. Last week's issue of the British magazine Nature carries a report by Schevill and L. Valentine Worthington, an oceanographer on the Institution's Atlantis, that produces scientific evidence to support what oldtime...
...wife, the play tells how a scheming lady matchmaker blows out every match she gets lighted, till she herself manages to become the conquering flame. The story does nothing so genteel as unfold. It catapults and ricochets: characters bounce out of trapdoors, squeeze into closets, hide under tables, eavesdrop behind screens; boys dress up as girls and cab drivers loop with drink, identities are mistaken and purses mislaid. There is all the homey, cheerful pandemonium of a horse-and-buggy age whose inhabitants may have been inhibited but whose playwriting decidedly...
...came to be known), ran through the whole book of the law, got nine stays of execution. One of their appeals was based on a paragraph in a Reader's Digest article which told how a Yiddish-speaking cop was stationed near the defendants at their trial to eavesdrop as they spoke to each other...