Word: thing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...your fingers, so don't wash your hands in it." Japanese must be careful not to stretch out their legs under the table because "you may kick someone. If this is done, apologize quickly, especially in the case of a lady, for in the West this kind of thing is construed in a certain way and can invite misunderstanding." The ultimate and desperate warning: "Whatever happens, never become flustered. Be calm and cool...
Professional airmen have long feared the way-up phenomenon of clear air turbulence-called CAT. But not until recent months, with at least one airline disaster attributable to CAT (TIME, April 11), has awareness of the danger struck home to the high-flying U.S. public. The worst thing about CAT was that even the experts have had little notion of how to avoid its claws-until...
Another remarkable thing about living organisms is their ability to store in the nucleus of a single microscopic cell all the genetic information that makes that cell develop into a vastly complicated creature such as a fish, a bird or a man. Dr. Savely does not expect that those deep mysteries will be solved soon, but he is sure that study of them by physicists, chemists and mathematicians, as well as by biologists, will add enormously to the power of scientific...
...story enough to provide a real center of feeling among all the vaudeville tricks, freak-show tactics, music-hall gags and ditties that stuff out the evening. As the whores and queers and strangies cavort, as irreverent lyrics make butts of everything, as wisecracks tumble out brightly ("The worst thing about jail is the other Irish patriots who are in along with you") or breezy and old ("Vat 69-that's the Pope's telephone number"), it's easy to make too little of The Hostage, to call it mere tongue-in-cheekiness, a jolly but self...
...Skelton does a nightclub or television show, a man with a towel stands by at all times in case Red's stomach suffers one of its frequent reactions to the strain. Throughout the performance, whether he is Clem Kaddiddlehopper or Cauliflower McPugg, his characters have at least one thing in common: they are all but afloat in nervous perspiration. Red trembles and his eyes are alight with tears as, in the end, he inhales his grand ration of applause; and the people who swarm backstage for his autograph find an obliging man, usually dressed in an old kimono, whose...