Word: firework
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...Great Kremlin Palace by top Soviet leaders, treated to firework displays and riverboat excursions, exposed to agricultural and industrial exhibitions, loaded with honorary degrees at Moscow University, the beaming Indonesian President responded feelingly: "We shall continue to struggle and to make the whole world free from capitalism and colonialism." Later at Tashkent, under a shower of roses, he cried: "The friendship of the Soviet and Indonesian peoples is a friendship of fighters . . . The idea of coexistence will develop unceasingly...
...sodium rocket was not merely a beautiful and expensive firework; it had a serious scientific purpose: to help the Air Force's long-range study of the upper atmosphere. Part of the "air glow" (the faint glow of the night sky) comes from sodium atoms that absorb solar energy during the day. At night they give off this energy as yellow sodium light. Scientists do not know how high the "sodium layer" is. Nor do they know how the sodium got into the top of the atmosphere. Some think it came from outer space; others suspect that it originated...
...that zooms off a three-foot-long launching rack at almost 90 m.p.h., shoots up 300 feet. At the top of its climb, a small parachute breaks out from the nose and lets down the rocket slowly. It can then be refilled with a charge similar to those in firework skyrockets and used again. Price in Germany, about...
While delegates of the 21 American Republics met in Havana last week to face the transoceanic threat of fascism, the struggle of democracy v. fascism was already making history in the Western Hemisphere. Bombs, of the firework variety, were set off in the streets of Santiago, Chile by the Popular Socialist Vanguard -former Chilean Nacista (Nazi) Party. At the same time members strewed the town with pamphlets, attacking tough little pockmarked President Pedro Aguirre Cerda for pardoning the carabineros who shot down 62 Nazi students in the abortive 1938 revolt...
...colonists in their practical manner had an excellent device for speeding along courtship and saving firework at the same time. The damsel and box suitor, when the winter winds blew off simply popped into bed, fully clothed lowered a small wooden fence between them and pulled the covers high ground their necks. This was called "bunding" and it is this quaint practice that provides the central theme for "The Pursuit of Happiness," playing at the Metropolitan theatre this week...