Word: precursor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the war, Terrell tried his hand at a twelve-minute'film called Smellodrama -an odorously unsuccessful precursor of Mike Todd Jr.'s untried Smell-O-Vision (TIME, Nov. 17). Then in 1949, Terrell opened the nation's first musical arena-theater tent at Lambertville, although " 'tent' was one of the few four-letter words you didn't use in the theater." To Broadway's surprise, he cleared $20,000 his first season. This year Terrell tentacles will scoop...
...Havana 1,000 angry cattlemen met to condemn land reform as "slavery," "confiscation" and a "precursor of violence and convulsions." A mass meeting of rice growers denounced the reform as uneconomic; Pinar del Río landholders pledged themselves "to defend our property, acquired by the efforts, battles and privations of years." Five Havana newspapers criticized the reform. Avance noted that the regime could no longer "dust off that celebrated little word 'counterrevolutionary' for everyone who dissents from official opinion...
...bench-testing in secrecy the world's first liquid-fueled rocket. Four years later, he made his first flight tests. His tiny, ungainly gadget, launched from a relative's farm near Auburn. Mass., hardly got off the ground, but it was the true precursor of today's mighty rockets. Three years later, an 11-ft. rocket climbed 90 ft. Its noise attracted the local cops and stirred up so much opposition that Goddard left Massachusetts for thinly populated New Mexico. There his rockets climbed higher and higher. In 1935 one reached the sensational height...
...feats -fighting saboteurs, thwarting jewelry thieves, foiling dope smugglers-that both King Baudouin and French Novelist Francoise (A Certain Smile) Sagan are listed as fans. Tintin has made a millionaire of Herge (real name: Georges Remi), 51, who was a schoolboy when he started to draw Tintin's precursor as a boy spy during the German occupation of World...
...love the name of John because it reminds us of John the Baptist, precursor of our Lord . . . and the other John, the disciple and evangelist, who said: 'My children, love one another, love one another because this is the grand precept of Christ.' Perhaps we can, taking the name of this first series of holy Popes,* have something of his sanctity and strength of spirit, even-if God wills it-to the spilling of blood...