Word: clues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Patiently, the Farnborough men made "flight" after flight. At last came the event that they had been waiting for. After the equivalent of 9,000 hours of flight, the skin of the cabin near a window yielded to metal fatigue. This gave the essential clue. The scientists found a similar break in the fragments of Yoke Peter near the direction-finder window in the roof. Then they traced, fragment by fragment, what had happened with fearful swiftness to the doomed Comet...
...sources of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County characters and their stories. The great-grandfather was the living model for Colonel John Sartoris, one of the central figures in the Jefferson Sags, and in the figure of Faulkner himself, painfully dedicated to the labor of reproducing this family legend, lies a clue to the Reverend High tower of Light in August and the obsession with ancestral heroism which he carried with him even to the pulpit...
...that were whipped up will soon be catalogued by the U.S. publisher, Harper & Bros., in a wildly epicurean tome called The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book, which is already causing excited talk on both sides of the Atlantic. Perhaps Alice's most gone concoction (and also a possible clue to some of Gertrude's less earthly lines) was her hashish fudge ("which anyone could whip up on a rainy day").* Fudgemaker Toklas' impassioned reaction: "This is the food of Paradise. It might provide entertaining refreshment for a Ladies' Bridge Club or a chapter meeting...
...reverse explanation: originally, the duckbilled women had merely tried to make themselves unattractive to marauding Arab slave raiders who were seeking likely harem material. Both explanations are dismissed by French Sociologist Jean-Paul Lebeuf, a longtime expert on African ethnology and prehistory, who believes he has found the real clue in the lore of the upcountry Fali and Sara tribes...
...contain nothing more exciting than the measurements, in feet and inches, of innumerable loopholes, embrasures and arches, plus detailed information about the price of milk and bread and the state of his bicycle ("34 punctures to date ... in 1,400 miles"). If Ned's letters were the only clue to his identity, readers would think that all he did in World War I was collect stamps for his little brother, meet some amiable sheiks and try to find time to read Aristophanes. He nowhere suggests why he had to put up with the vexation of being decorated and promoted...