Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What a thrill, after twelve years, to see a once familiar face in TIME, Dec. 30. I knew Byron G. MacNabb when he was a lieutenant in the Navy and I was civilian secretary to the officer in charge of the armament test unit of the Navy's Patuxent River station. We were both in the unit at the time they test fired the first rockets mounted on the underside of the wings of Navy planes-we couldn't have known we were spawning such a big girl as "Annie." I remember one occasion when they shot...
Sixpence per Line. With intimates, Thackeray's conversation was "decidedly loose" (lost forever, presumably, is the remainder of his limerick about "...the Countess Guiccioli Who slept with Lord Byron habitually"). He enjoyed going to pubs, or, as one enemy described it:"[He] not infrequently condescends to wither mankind through his spectacles from one of the marble tables." His love of bad puns was notorious ("A good one is not worth listening to"). Said a friend: "I recollect him now, wiping his brow after trying vainly to help the leg of a tough fowl, and saying he was 'heaving...
...rain squall splashed overhead. At last the red warning light blinked, and the workers cleared the area. The 40-man firing team had long since begun operations 750 ft. away in a sand-covered concrete blockhouse. A mile away, on the roof of a hangar, stood B. G. (for Byron Gordon) MacNabb, hardbitten, respected ("I'm just a slave-driving bastard") operations manager for Convair, Big Annie's builder. Tuned with a headset to the countdown, MacNabb relayed the information to a teletype operator below, who in turn flashed it to Convair's San Diego headquarters...
...contemporary Americans. This section of the exhibition, while not as varied as the other, fails nonetheless to maintain the same level of quality in its own sphere. A few canvases stand out prominently. They are a still-life by Joseph Solman, a Provincetown vignette and still-life by Byron Browne and a still-life and "Judgement of Paris" by Manfred Schwartz...
...Europe was shocked by Casement's voluminous, angry reports (published in 1904) on torture, floggings and forced labor. Later, he made similar reports for the British Foreign Office about cruel treatment of rubber-plantation workers in Peru. By now, Casement had become a romantic celebrity with something of Byron about him. He was knighted by King George V, and he wrote a fulsome letter of gratitude to Foreign Minister Sir Edward Grey about his honor...