Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trailing orange flame, a 75-ft. Atlas ICBM rocketed off its launching pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla. last week and disappeared out over the Atlantic. Shortly afterward the Air Force issued a proud announcement: the big bird had flown successfully over a test course of several hundred miles. Reports had it that the missile, the seventh Atlas to be fired and the third to complete its programed course, was preset to swerve sharply after burnout in a test of structural strength. Apparently it scored...
...unhurried, severely ritualistic style that became occasionally monotonous in the long preludes to violence. But the economy of movement also produced fascinating effects, such as the shuttling plotters' dance in Act II, with Agamemnon's ghost in platform shoes tottering over them like a crippled bird. Throughout, Dancer Graham's movements of whiplike vitality and agonized angularities brought to life the rage in Clytemnestra's mind...
...life, but forbidden to live it. The main part of the book is concerned with details of prison existence-often, perhaps, most interesting to students of penology and the strength-through-pain principle behind it. There is the round of workshops, prison libraries, bouts in "solitary," a pet bird named Bum, a kindly chaplain...
...Navy's anchor," some of the wits had dubbed the bird, and someone suggested that all Vanguard needed was a rubber band to spring it skyward. Said Scientist J. (for James) Paul Walsh, 40, pugnacious Vanguard deputy director who bossed the Cape project: "It made me goddam mad. If they call you a lummox long enough, you've got to be careful or you'll start believing...
Vanguard's rocketmen, too devoted to believe in anything but ultimate success, gilded their worries with sentiment. As the moment for last week's shoot approached, one man fastened a St. Christopher's medal inside the bird, after producing a formal equipment-change memo on which was printed, as the reason for the change...