Word: arraying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least as good a rewrite-man. He can take widely scattered strands of information-from books, statistics, official reports, newspaper clippings-and weave them into a pattern that is not only meaningful but brightly his own. Says "Jimmy" Sheean: "He is no mere compiler, for all his massive array of facts. He has repeatedly proved readable to a degree which no assembly of facts could explain. The zest with which he relishes his material gives it the breathless flavor of discovery every time, even aside from the liveliness of the writing." Gunther's success as a popularizer also springs...
...only thing known about them is that their composition changes when tissues are damaged. Price took a standard (but highly complex) fractionator. Into it he put 4 cc. (one teaspoon) of serum from the blood of his test subjects. After the machine had dropped the various fractions into an array of test tubes, he put the tubes under the spectrophotometer for analysis...
...Britain's Harold Macmillan found Union Jacks fluttering over India's capital in festive display for the first time since the British Raj moved out in 1947. Out at the airport to greet the only British Prime Minister ever to visit India while in office was an array of notables headed by Jawaharlal Nehru and backed up by thousands of cheering citizens...
Most experts feel that a few more billions for defense in fiscal 1959 will be only a starter, since the U.S. has not yet faced up to the fantastic cost of building an on-the-firing-line array of missiles. Nor has it faced up to the enormous cost of some of the other space projects now being discussed, such as a manned satellite. No missileman doubts that the U.S. will have to engage in such projects; all assume the Russians are working on them...
...International Airport at Idlewild, on the southeastern edge of Queens, has sprouted like a teen-ager since its opening a decade ago. But the barracks-like terminal buildings originally built as temporary edifices remained to cramp it like an outgrown and tattered suit. Last week Idlewild got a sparkling array of new buildings eminently befitting its position as the aerial gateway to the U.S. While 2,000 guests looked on, New York's Governor Harriman, New Jersey's Governor Meyner and Mayor Wagner of New York City formally dedicated a $30 million, half-mile-long group of buildings...