Word: snapshots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Japan was so pleased at being allowed to hold this year's championship, that the government issued a special ten-yen (3?) stamp. When the Swaythling Cup winners were awarded their prize, Captain Ichiro Ogimura took a small snapshot from his pocket and held it in front of the silver trophy. It was a picture of Kichiji Tamasu, 21-year-old team star, who died of a heart attack last January. Said Ogimura with due solemnity: "I thought he should know...
Many nonmilitary uses are also showing up. Since Eva was declassified, Baird Associates has been getting inquiries from industries that want to chart hot spots in electronic apparatus, find flaws in hot metal parts. Another obvious use is to check the insulation of a building by taking a snapshot of the heat escaping through its walls...
...Snapshots. After such reversals, the time called for heroic measures, but not quite so heroic as Niko's returning to Greece himself. He decided to send Roula. Last February, Commissar Roula slipped across the border with her lover's instructions to reorganize the underground and bring back information on all the key figures in Greece. Niko's trusted old bodyguard was with her. Last week Athens announced that the two had been captured, and the Boss's Wife charged with espionage. In her pockets they found wads of drachmas and six well-thumbed photographs of five...
...possibility that J.S. was suffering from hysteria, but soon had to rule that out. Then they found that J.S. had "tunnel vision," i.e., he saw only a narrow field, as though he were looking through a tube. This still did not explain the case. Doctors found a small snapshot showing him as a World War II pilot: the face was clearly recognizable and small enough to be well within his tunneled view. But J.S. could not identify himself. Said one doctor: "He seemed to have no visual image of himself to compare with the photograph...
...France stirred up more than ordinary interest on the part of the public and the public's servants. As he made his official rounds last week, Pierre Mendès-France was greeted everywhere by swarms of curious, often applauding Washingtonians, eager for a glimpse or a snapshot of the most-discussed, most controversial Frenchman since General Charles de Gaulle. Mendès-France had been characterized variously as a fickle Gallic opportunist and as a pin-striped Savonarola who preached hard truths. Preparing to return to France this week, the brisk little Premier had not settled that argument...