Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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McCarthy had promised to stand or fall on his case against Owen Lattimore, and he clearly had little left to stand...
Heroes, like Hudson River shad, are a notably perishable commodity; no matter how brightly they may gleam when they are hauled into public view, they have a disconcerting tendency to spoil if they are left in the sun. Those who do not go gracefully to an early grave often fall easy prey to baldness, fallen arches and the horrors of earning a living. Even if they avoid relief rolls, and skid-road bars, they are still apt to end up squirting old ladies with water pistols at American Legion conventions...
Boxer-turned-Painter William Grant Sherry, 35, who last fall managed to patch up a loudly publicized spat with his cinemactress wife Bette Davis, 42> was in trouble again. Sherry had noisily broken up a party at the RKO studio, where the cast of The Story of a Divorce had just presented Actress Davis with a monstrous trophy for being "a good egg" (see cut). When he heard that his didoes had prompted highstrung Bette to resume divorce proceedings, the ex-pug unburdened himself to the press: "I'm tired of being pushed around. She was the breadwinner...
...Wild Statements." What puzzled many Washington newsmen and officials was: How and why did the U.S. News fall for the flying-saucer story? According to Managing Editor L. Noble Robinson, U.S. News "got the idea" for its story from Commander McLaughlin, the same man who wrote the True story. U.S. News did not talk to McLaughlin ("He was out at sea") and did not quote him by name; but the editors had evidently relied heavily on his reports. In port at Boston last week with his destroyer Bristol, McLaughlin disavowed the U.S. News piece as full of "wild statements...
...years botanists have known that plants keep their calendars straight by measuring the length of the day. A spring-flowering plant blooms when the days have reached the right length for that particular species. A fall-flowering plant blooms when the days have got short enough after the summer solstice. Both "long-day" and "short-day" plants can be fooled-by controlled lighting-into flowering out of season...