Word: crab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adventures in Science (Sat. 3:15 p.m., CBS). All about the horseshoe crab, which has been going strong since dinosaur times...
...fleet denuded of its air groups was like a crab without claws. Saipan, Tinian and Guam were doomed. Sake-crazed and glory-minded, the Japanese made desperate banzai charges and blew themselves up with their own land mines. They paid with ten lives for every American marine and G.I. life they took. "On 12 August 1944," concludes Historian Morison proudly, "the Philippine Sea and the air over it, and the islands of Saipan, Tinian and Guam, were under American control. May they never again be relinquished...
Although Brodrick believes that St. Francis worked miracles, he casts a skeptical eye on some of them. One is the famous story that, after Xavier lost a crucifix overboard at sea, a crab miraculously returned it to the shore the next day. The saint never mentioned this himself and, although the story was cited in the Papal Bull announcing Xavier's canonization, Brodrick does not believe it. ("It is entirely a matter of evidence.") Another legend: Xavier's reputedly miraculous "gift of tongues." Father Brodrick notes that the Basque saint was a notoriously poor linguist, not even fluent...
...machine is the latest gadget of the power garden tool business, an industry that has sprung up like crab grass since the war. All over the U.S. last week, men were revving up their power mowers and heading into the wild green yonder with all the enthusiasm of fighter pilots climbing into the sun. Children were cleaning up as much as $75 a week, making the neighborhood rounds with the family machine. Sears, Roebuck reported it was selling one power mower for every two non-powered machines...
...have held the nation's horrified eye for 100 years because so little is concealed from the public view. In Pennsylvania the political backrooms have picture windows. Politicians let down their hair (if any) in front of reporters. Pennsylvania politics wears its skeleton outside its body, like a crab...