Word: colder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guided missile boring down from space? Answer: if viewed with up-to-date infra-red equipment, it stands out like a neon sign. Its smokestacks shine like lighthouses; its highways gleam like long bright lines. Nothing can be securely concealed if it is a few degrees warmer or colder than other things around...
...road to take cover under thick foliage sends heat waves that strike through the leaves, telling just where it is. Rivers show clearly : at night their surface water is generally warmer than the leaves of vegetation on their banks. Boats leave conspicuous wakes by mixing warm surface water with colder water from below...
This week a Britain that had receded a long way from Kipling paid affectionate if slightly embarrassed tribute to Sir Edward Elgar on the centennial of his birth. Extravagantly overpraised in his own day, Elgar is now in the shadows. The colder airs of Benjamin Britten rule Britannia- so much so that critics are taking pains to point out that Elgar, after all, was a skilled and inventive composer who opened a whole new musical tradition for his musically backward country...
...tragic flaw lies not in his character, but in the fact that he is only an "Acting Colonel." The War Office sends a man named Basil Barrow from London to take over the battalion. A "poor wee laddie," who is colder than Flora MacDonald,* he had spent the war in British intelligence. Which colonel will command the battalion-Jock or this Barrow boy? Jock is handicapped not only by a mistress but a prim Presbyterian daughter named Morag who is in love with a corporal-piper. The newcomer makes the fatal mistake of issuing regulations on how the Highland officers...
...name spotlighted the man he wanted to see as the next President of the U.S. Said Franklin Delano Roosevelt of Herbert Hoover: "He is certainly a wonder and I wish we could make him President . . . There could not be a better one." By 1932, no two men lived in colder enmity. In F.D.R.'s view. Hoover had become a dragon who was devouring the common man. To Hoover, Roosevelt was at worst an economic madman, at best a mere "featherduster" (the nickname had been devised by kindly friends who considered F.D.R. a mental lightweight, a view then shared...