Word: clams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McMahon's vice chairman, the committee has tried to function on a tentative basis; but Government agencies, which have worked closely with the chairman in the past, now have no key man to contact. Members, fearful that they might tip the chairmanship stalemate the wrong way, have been clam-quiet on some important issues, e.g., the Navy's failure to promote Captain Hyman G. Rickover, the atomic-submarine expert...
...press policy. At first Lieut. General Taylor's press officer said the questions would not be answered because they were "impolite." Then, apparently after consulting the Army's "ten commandments" on public information policy (sample: "The fundamental concept of the Army is one of disclosure"), Taylor opened Clam-Up a bit. He said that correspondents could interview Eighth Army soldiers-with due regard for military security-provided that they were "willing to be interviewed." But this week NBC Correspondent (and ex-Air Force lieutenant colonel) Tex McCrary was placed in protective custody for failing to let a regimental...
...three incidents were the latest evidence of what Korean correspondents call "Operation Clam-Up," a restriction on the press which stems from an order by Major General Paul D. Adams, the Eighth Army's chief of staff. Adams, angered by unfavorable stories, e.g., Operation Smack and the uproar over the 65th Infantry (TIME, Feb. 2 et seq.), passed the word down that there had been too much "irresponsible talk" and that he did not want a "gabby" army...
Lady on the Beach is the story of Norah and her husband, Old Sarge, who left the city to settle down to a quiet life of beachcombing, clam digging, crabbing, reading and talking in the down-at-the-heels seaside community-a "poor man's Paradise." But Norah and her Old Sarge no longer have the quiet and contentment they once sought. Says Book Critic Lewis Gannett in the New York Herald Tribune: "It's fun to read. But Norah says the letter in TIME brought a host of tourists down the new improved highway to Ocean City...
...theta being in outer space billions of years ago. ("Things are as rough in outer space as they are here," says a devout Hubbardian. "Anything can happen.") If a subject has a pain in his jaw, it may be that in an earlier spiral he was a clam. If this pain is associated with fear of falling, he must have been a clam that was picked up by a bird and dropped on the rocks...