Word: christener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mamie Eisenhower stepped off the train at Philadelphia on the way to christen the nuclear ship Savannah last week (see The Atom), a telegram from the President was handed to her. Turning to a stocky, crop-haired man in her party, she said, "I want to be the first to congratulate you," and passed the telegram along to him. Thus was Frederick H. Mueller, 65, informed that he had been chosen to fill the hole in the Eisenhower team left by the Senate's rejection of Lewis Strauss (TIME, June...
Fresh and buoyant in a blue print dress and matching turban, Mamie Eisenhower took a few practice swings, baseball-style, then smashed a champagne bottle frothily on the looming bow, pronouncing the traditional formula: "I christen thee N.S. [for nuclear ship] Savannah.* Godspeed." After a second's hesitation, America's first nuclear-powered merchant vessel slid easily down the ways at Camden, N.J. and into the waters of the Delaware...
...short stroll from the gutted hulk of Berlin's old Reichstag one blustery day last week, a young German girl stepped resolutely forward, smashed a bottle of German wine against a brand-new building set on the banks of the River Spree, proclaimed in a clear voice. "I christen you the Congress Hall in memory of Benjamin Franklin." Thus was opened Berlin's newest and most venturesome building, a joint project of the U.S., the West German government and the city of Berlin. Designed as a cultural center where plays, music, debates and symposiums will be held...
...antebellum South where slaves sing in King Cotton's fields, and dance joyfully to the amusement of the kindly massas from the Big House. The South will not endure the North's dictation, and so her sons ride off from Wingate Halls garlanded with tears and cheers, to christen the Stars and Bars in Yankee blood at Bull Run. Though the war ends with Lee's majestic surrender to sloppy old Grant, the wounded sons return home to begin a spirited restitching of their tattered Dixie-land until Lincoln--brave, tall, sad, lonely Lincoln--is assassinated in a historical facsimile...
...harmless to skin and other tissue). Father Lambert scraped together sufficient funds to get to London and there "invested his last dollar in an elegant carriage with a liveried coachman." Helped by this haughty equipage, he coaxed from Lord Lister, the pioneer of antiseptic surgery, the right to christen the new formula with the great man's name...