Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arkansas, part delta and part mountain, part magnolia and part moonshine, where a horse is a "critter" and a heifer is a "cow brute," is given to such place names as Loafer's Glory, Bug Tussle, Hell for Sartain, Hog Scald, Nellie's Apron-and, perhaps most remote of them all, Greasy Creek in the Ozark forests of the northwest, where Orval Faubus was born 47 years ago in a candlelighted cabin...
...focuses on the basic problem of all radar: how to amplify the returning echo of the electromagnetic wave after it bounces off the target, without simultaneously amplifying the random electrical interference that is also picked up by the receiver. Heretofore, the usual method of improving reception has been the brute-force approach of multiplying the power of the signal. But this multiplication requires costly and cumbersome equipment, is impractical for such isolated sites as the arctic...
...addition, they had a brute of a man, M. C. Nokes, who was heavily-favored to win the hammer. However, their best hurdler, George Trowbridge, a Rhodes Scholar from Princeton, was felled by an acute attack of appendicitis...
...handicaps of the script. In his 90-minute TV adaptation of the Robert E. Sherwood play, Radio Writer Morton (The Eternal Light] Wishengrad shed little light on the character of the Nobel Prizewinning medical scientist who has a hard time realizing that "intelligence is impotent to cope with the brute of reality." The reality in this version of the oft-revised play was the revolt of fellow Hungarians. Until his final hour, the pacifist-minded doctor could see little purpose in getting involved, though it was violence to achieve freedom. As the hero's son, Bradford Dillman...
...religion with belief in a future life. In a cave near La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France, a Neanderthal grave has a vault of flat stones to protect the dead man. Beside it are flint tools and a haunch of meat for the dead man's needs. No mere brute, said Dr. Eiseley, could have such tender concern for the dead...