Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proving theoretically that, in key cases, parity need not be observed. Neither Yang nor Lee is an experimental man; so they merely suggested how their theory might be proved. When two experimental proofs came through early this year, parity was dead, and the Nobel Prize was practically in the bag (TIME...
...other rising young men: Al Capone, Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter, Lucky Luciano. He was often arrested (murder, 1928; murder, 1932; murder, 1933), but never convicted. A stool pigeon named John Bazzano, who took an interest in him in 1932, was found cut into stew meat in a burlap bag...
...Alamos, the secret New Mexico laboratory where the first atom bombs were taking shape, and where he was known as "Mr. Baker." The Gestapo searched his house in Denmark but found no atomic secrets. He had taken most of them to freedom in a small black bag. They missed his Nobel gold medal too. He had dissolved it in a bottle of acid and put it on a shelf to await reconstitution after...
...from there on, not even the cat's-paw should be let out of the bag. There is enough more plot, however, to see Monique comfortably-and the audience fairly apprehensively-through a full evening; enough for the villainy to be double-dyed and the victim never surely dead...
...quit as president in the midst of a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation of the company's financial reports. Trading his family's rubber-machinery business for control of Bellanca. Albert went on a stock-swapping spree that turned the small aircraft partsmaker into a grab bag of 70 firms, and helped push its stock from $4.37 a share to $30.50 a share within a few months (TIME. June 25, 1956). The stock plummeted last year to $1.75 a share because of the overexpansion, has since been suspended from trading on the American Stock Exchange; Bellanca subsidiaries folded...