Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critics had hoped. In a post-Denning TV attack on the government, Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson rehashed the weary charge that the Tories have debased public morality. As for the public, most Britons were so happily absorbed in Denning's brisk, chatty account of upper-crust sinning that many TV sets stayed dark...
...Eremites. It ends 21 years later in a secularized cloister in Wittenberg with the married Luther, his fierce fires banked in domesticity, cradling his infant son as he walks the night much like any other father. In between are the earthquake blows with which Luther split the earthly crust of Christendom...
Prudence Penny, the New York Mirror's cooking columnist, was teaching readers how to make rum pie with zwieback crust. "Break up zwieback," commanded Prudence conventionally. The next step in the recipe was the kicker: "Keep rum bottle handy; if smashing up zwieback exhausts you, take swig of rum and resume zwieback breaking when strength returns." The extraordinary advice may have startled housewives not yet privy to the Mirror's secret: Prudence Penny is a onetime police reporter named Hyman Goldberg...
...Geophysical Co., with its fleet of 20 ships, is the world's largest explorer of the ocean depths for minerals. It is currently searching the oceans for the best site for Project Mohole, a much-delayed attempt to bore deeper than ever before into the earth's crust; Western won the contract to test at four sites after other companies made an initial boring off Lower California to test equipment. "Oceanography* is as challenging as space," argues Thornton, "and it may have even greater potential...
...long as King Louis lived (Durant reports that in Scotland the last one was sent to the stake in 1722). But at the same time, Hooke was developing the compound microscope, which transformed the study of the cell; Nicolaus Steno was studying the development of the earth's crust; Olaus Roemer was determining the velocity of light. And John Locke, in his Second Treatise of Civil Government, was proposing a theory of representative government with such eloquence that Oswald Spengler was later to conclude that Locke was the architect of the Western Enlightenment...