Word: big
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neither university will build big apparatus. None is necessary; space-age man encounters many natural plasmas and creates many new ones. Fluorescent lamps are full of glowing plasma. The newly discovered Van Allen radiation belt, which surrounds the earth and stands as a threat to space-voyaging man. is a thin but dangerous plasma. The fireballs of nuclear explosions are made of plasma; so are electric arcs. When the warhead of a missile slams back into the atmosphere, it heats the air around it to 18.000° and turns it into an electrically charged plasma...
...downgrade among the service magazines. But by this week, under tough-talking, tough-acting Herb Mayes, 59, who took over as editor two weeks after he was fired from the same job in Hearst's Good Housekeeping, McCall's was again just one big happy family-particularly because on the basis of present progress. McCall's plans to up its guaranteed circulation to a record 5,500,000 next February...
...midst of a legal snarl over royalties, Leff posed some big questions about Joe's future. He had planned the birth of a baby boy, Buddy Palooka, for the end of October. Soon afterward, Leff meant to have Joe retire from the ring as undefeated champion, plunge into youth work and life as a family man. Only when boxing-world conditions "took a turn for the better" did Leff intend to bring Joe's younger brother Steve along as the next heavyweight champion...
Going into the ninth, the Dodgers' Koufax knew he had to fan the side. Giant Ed Bressoud was strike-out No. 16. Danny O'Connell was No. 17. Finally, swinging haplessly, Pitcher Jack Sanford was the big No. 18, and Koufax had broken the league record of 17 strikeouts set by the Cardinals' Dizzy Dean in 1933, tied the major-league mark set by Cleveland's Fireballer Bob Feller in 1938. To cap his performance, Koufax singled in the rally that won the game...
...big-budget industrial musical is nothing new. Chevrolet pioneered the idea nearly three decades ago, was soon followed by the rest of the industry-plus Coca-Cola, Westinghouse, General Electric, and dozens of other big firms that knew a good idea when they saw one. Seldom was the approach consistent: some companies concentrated on the soft sell, others pitched high and hard. Last season's Oldsmobile take-off on Broadway's Good News was the gentlest of kisses-and entertaining theater to boot. The songs were subtle, the plot made humorous sense, the verve of the Broadway original...