Word: blast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a toe-danced hoedown, a flight of several light-years into the abstract, an astringent costume piece and last week's boisterous blast of Fourth of July fireworks, Balanchine accomplished the richest and most varied season of his immensely productive career...
...which the cause is still unknown. The project would resemble the mass screening, currently under way, of all substances now on chemists' shelves, in the hope of finding cures for cancer. A major difficulty: the job is so huge that it would keep hundreds of laboratories working full blast. With the chemists churning out so many new products, Dr. Cornman concedes: "We will have to run fast just to keep...
...more than five months. Then Dr. Sullenberger returned to Pontiac General, where he was put back on the staff after signing an undated resignation. Within 16 months the hospital's new director, Carl Flath, picked up the resignation. Dr. Sullenberger sued for reinstatement. Then Director Flath loosed his blast. In an answer filed in court, he charged that Surgeon Sullenberger...
...from the sands of Florida's Cape Canaveral last week shot the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile with fiery blast and awesome roar. It climbed majestically into a layer of low-hanging clouds, disappeared to the southeast, and a few minutes later plummeted into the ocean 600 miles away-as planned...
...limit on single ownership. Boston's WCRB, which pioneered in stereophonic sound, is offering a record 128 hours of concert music a week, and Westinghouse Broadcasting Co.'s four new "FM only" outlets are making a pitch to advertisers who prefer "a rifle shot to a shotgun blast." Says Westinghouse President Donald McGannon: "FM is at last on the march, and that day may not be too far distant when our country will have three separate major media for broadcast entertainment and advertising: TV, AM radio and FM radio...