Word: columning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grew larger and brighter until it appeared as if no dark glasses were there at all. An intense heat struck us almost immediately and the ball of fire started to rise and slowly lose its intensity. We took off our glasses and saw water vapor suddenly form around the column...
...Then it rushed into the base of the column and up, clearing the air so that you could see countless tons of water rushing skyward-drawn up the column by that tremendous unseen force. The column went up & up and finally mushroomed. About three minutes* later, the report, like a nearby cannon shot, hit us and was followed by several seconds of dull rumbling. Then the mushroom expanded into a free halo, growing with tornado-like speed and reaching nearly over our ship before it appeared to cease growing. Then it appeared to connect itself to the main column...
...recalled in her newspaper column recently that Franklin Delano Roosevelt "used to say with amusement that he thought there were more Delanos in Chile than in the U.S. . . . One of his earliest sea-captain relatives once sailed into port in Chile, found the country at war, joined their navy and stayed to become a citizen." Best known of the dozen Delanos Mrs. Roosevelt met: Caricaturist Jorge ("Coke") Delano...
Delicatessen Nobility. Bums, bettors, Broadway guys, hangers-on and contestants at every sports arena are material for Cannon's column; his ear is finely tuned to their talk. "They're a kind of delicatessen nobility," says he. "I know lots of guys who talk like Two Head." Cannon knows them because he was born & raised in their midst, on Manhattan's lower West Side, still lives in a hotel midway between Broadway and Madison Square Garden. At 17, as a copy boy on the Daily News, Cannon's skill with words caught the city editor...
...second consecutive year, the Hygiene Department was in the debit column, taking a $25,000 loss...