Word: claps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atomic bomb dropped at Bikini was not the clap of doom, but it was an ominous sample. Because it sank only a handful of ships, around the world there were some who scoffed at it. But military men saw a point that few laymen seemed to consider: in war a power with mastery of the atom would no more attack a prime enemy target with one bomb than a machine-gunner would go into battle with one round in his magazine...
...poured around $300,000 into his hobby (including $50,000 for a log base-station, new this season), has taken out his dividends in fun. A so-so skier (he hurt his knee cap seven years ago), he nevertheless likes to wrap himself in a huge sheepskin coat, clap on a cocky green Alpine hat, ride up the mountain and ski down (see cut). Nights he joins the orchestra in the Currier & Ives Room at the inn, plays one of his four mandolins and seven violins, including a glass one. Between numbers, he regales his guests with tales...
...long ago, "the clap" used to be considered "no worse than a bad cold." Thanks to this cavalier attitude, many a child has become blind, many a woman made sterile, many an,oldster made insane. Syphilis killed its thousands, but gonorrhea crippled its tens of thousands...
...operagoers, who know when to clap and when not to, were scandalized. Most indignant of all were the 50-odd members of the Metropolitan's claque, whose carefully timed outbursts were swamped in the generally undisciplined enthusiasm...
...Parr and wallstrait are puns ("par" and "Wall Street") on the rise & fall of stockmarket values. The immense polysyllable that fol lows the word "fall" is the voice of God's wrath over the fall of man, the crash of Finnegan from the ladder, and the thunder clap that inaugurates a new period of history...