Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usually caved flat as a platter. A Ph.D. (Yale, 1925), he spent his early career studying the phenomenon of ionization, began working on the cyclotron as early as 1930. He first demonstrated it that year with a crude but scientifically overwhelming do-it-yourself kit: a kitchen chair, clothes tree, toy-sized four-inch magnet, pie-sized vacuum chamber made of window glass, brass and sealing wax. Nobel Prizewinner (1939) Lawrence is a humorous, vigorous man who steams around his labs with-as nucleonics folk term it-all rods in. He plays tennis, fiddles with television (he invented a color...
Last week Air Force Colonel Dixon J. Arnold, commander of the 53rd Troop Carrier Squadron, issued a flat order: plant the pine trees. Two thousand miles from New Zealand, by the next Douglas Globemaster, came 25 pine trees, four to six feet tall. Yielding gracefully, Navy ground crews planted 24 of them the way the Air Force wanted-even though there had never before been a pine tree in all Antarctica. To add insult to this interservice triumph, the airmen posted a sign showing Smokey the Bear pointing at the snow and a 25th tree. Beneath him was the legend...
...armed with Tommy guns and armored cars, deployed before the National Palace, but the raging mob formed again, and charged until driven off by tear gas and cracking rifles. A girl died of a bullet in the back of her head; downtown Guatemala City was littered with broken glass, tree limbs and burnt crates...
...came a whole fleet of new cars in a blizzard of announcements promising "jet intakes," "bubble windshields," "flight-pitch transmissions," "Marauder engines"-even an ICBM look. There were downswept snouts, upswept fins and outswept taillights ; all were ablaze with dazzling colors and gleaming chrome brighter than any Christmas tree. Sighed a Detroit secretary, rapturously examining a trailerload of new 1958s; "Chrome is my favorite color...
...direct, conscientious approach of all its selections, leaving attempts at ultra-modernity, super-sophistication and profound obscurity to other publications. John Von Rodenbeck's whimsical study of the victorious Nelson at Trafalgar, Anne Lord's charming sketch of Horses in a Field and Betsy Borden's Elm Tree in Spring demonstrate perhaps most lucidly this admirable use of poetic simplicity...