Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Electronic equipment to flash to earth data on such matters as cosmic rays and gravitational pull will account for 80% of the weight. The skin of the hollow ball will be one-fiftieth of an inch thick. Jutting from the sphere's surface will be four collapsible antennas and a coupling device that will release the moon from the last of the three rockets needed to blast it into space (TIME...
PORTABLE TV SETS now account for 20% of industry's sales, 15% of its dollar volume. One major TV maker (Emerson) reports that its portable TV-phono-radio has become its biggest seller...
...record gives an amusingly phony account of an invasion from space ("We switch you now to our on-the-spot reporter downtown . . . Take it away, John Cameron Cameron"), with rock-'n'-roll overtones. In a dizzy pastiche, almost every sentence of the invasion "broadcast" is matched by an answering snatch of some popular rock-'n'-roll record. The result is a kind of contrapuntal dialogue. "The flying saucers," says a breathless announcer, "are real!" "Real." echoes a familiar rock-'n'-roll record a split second later, "Real, when I feel what my heart...
...with a ragged half of his battalion. Arthur Campbell, who was among the relieving troops, saw.the survivors' pride and misery, and resolved to write their story. Campbell (who won a Military Cross later for gallantry) has written one of the great stories of World War II, an account of unmatched hardship and bravery, ranking with Guadalcanal, Tarawa. Iwo Jima and Okinawa. At Kohima the British showed that, even outmatched 30 to 1, they could hold...
...Shute's novel, No Highway (1948), gave an imaginative account of an airliner's disintegration through metal fatigue, which seemed very nearly prophetic in the light of the British Comet crashes...