Word: alfresco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columbia and Chen Ning Yang of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton were visiting Long Island's Brookhaven National Laboratory, whose pleasant summer climate and massive equipment attract vacationing physicists from all over the country. A leading topic at bull sessions, some of them held alfresco on Westhampton Beach, was the "tau-theta puzzle," which many leading physicists have been trying manfully to crack since...
...around the schoolhouse and, laden with hampers and bulging boxes of food, made their way up the hogback ridge to the old cemetery. It was the annual reunion of three fertile and ancient mountain clans that go back to the beginnings of Kentucky, There, and throughout the nation, the alfresco political season was beginning. With the Fourth of July weekend the season would be in full swing...
...campaign. By train, plane, automobile, horse & buggy and afoot. Dwight Eisenhower went out among the people last week. Nearly a million Americans cheered him on his way. Scores of high-school bands tinkled and tootled and ruffled and flourished for him. In a frosty Pennsylvania stadium, he ate an alfresco box supper with 9,000 (see below). South of the border for one day, he offered a champagne toast to the President of Mexico. In New Orleans he took on a flaming sunburn, in Kansas City a stockman's Homburg. In Abilene he picked cornflowers from his mother...
...idea of a sort of highborn Oxford, circa 1900, fits the play's alfresco gaieties, elaborate forms, donnish humor and prankish but decorous lovemaking. In individual roles, such players as Joseph Schildkraut and Philip Bourneuf enliven the proceedings. The speeches at times are blurred, but the play's peculiarly Shakespearean finale, with its melancholy charm, is beautifully achieved. Says one of the lovers...
During the Inchon campaign, Almond toured his front lines indefatigably. As early as 4 a.m., he would leave his 2½-ton trailer CP (equipped with refrigerator and alfresco shower) to drive his own jeep to some jumping-off point. He got to know by name every X Corps battalion commander, talked to several score men in the ranks daily. One G.I. gave him this passing mark: "The soldiers here may not like him, but they sure as hell admire him. That's one general who sticks his neck out just like we have...