Word: aloft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there any direct reference to Quemoy, but the thousands of "study groups" convened to discuss the new publication were quick to get the point. "Under the brilliant leadership of Chairman Mao," proclaimed a military school teacher, "we have gone from victory to victory. So long as we hold aloft the Red banner of Chairman Mao in ideology, we shall always triumph." In other words: don't ask questions; Mao has always been right before, and he must have something up his sleeve this time...
Hidden Flames. A major breakthrough in Byzantine art was the rediscovery of the Russian icon, one of the great, traditional art forms. Medieval Russians carried wonderworking icons into battle against the Tartars, held them aloft in religious processions, encrusted church partitions with them. Because pious tradition held that the earliest images were painted-from-life portraits of New Testament figures, the icons were scrupulously copied for some 800 years, repaired when damaged and endlessly varnished...
...Federal Reserve banks (see BUSINESS). ¶ The defense reorganization bill, pushed through a balky Congress by the Administration, was a solid step toward solving the Pentagon's problems. And the historic transpolar voyages of nuclear submarines Nautilus and Skate were sharp reminders -along with three satellites aloft, and a spectacular series of record performances by U.S. aircraft-that the nation is much farther along in technological progress than it seemed in the flap after Sputnik I. ¶ President Eisenhower's decision to send U.S. troops to Lebanon diverted public attention from the Adams-Goldfine affair -and boosted...
...Soviet Decathlon Hero Vasily Kuznetsov, but the husky U.S. Negro got a brotherly buss from the loser and a tremendous roar of approval from the 30,000 fans, as he mounted the winner's platform in Moscow's Lenin Stadium and smilingly held a bouquet of flowers aloft in triumph. Rafer Lewis Johnson, 22, of Kingsburg, Calif, had treated appreciative Muscovites to one of the greatest individual performances in track and field history. He had amassed a world-record 8,302 points in the rugged decathlon*—:considered by many the toughest test of human endurance ever devised...
American, the largest domestic carrier, will also be the first with pure jets aloft. It will have five or six 707s in operation by year's end, starting on the New York-to-Los Angeles run (time: 5½ hours westbound, 4½ eastbound...