Word: cuts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simile, first of all, is unworthy of TIME'S vivid standards: "...Charlie ('Yard-bird') Parker cut loose, puffing his tenor sax like a big cigar..." [TIME...
...there the class in world history was using TIME for a panel discussion (see cut). I joined in and we had a fine time. A 14-year-old Iraqi girl named Clare Bakash said that she and her family depended on TIME for a complete report on world news-especially because she could not count on receiving foreign news broadcasts clearly at home. Amik Zaharkian, 13, an Armenian, told me that he admired TIME'S style very much, but he thought that you had to be 'very well educated to understand it.' Steven Bochner, a 15-year...
...Earp, famed frontier marshal), who owns the place and keeps his real-estate office in the back. Earp removed the outdoor privy a couple of years ago, but the mule shoe that Father Truman nailed over the door the day Harry was born is still there. Earp explained: "I cut $5,000 off the price, if the state would allow the placement of a bronze plaque in the living room as a memorial to my mother and father...
...condemning Communist teachers. Once on the "right side," they thought their attacks on smear tactics would be heeded. Since they sincerely believed that Communists were "unfit" to teach, they felt they should say so if, in the process, "'investigations,' book-banning, and efforts at intimidation" of non-Communists be cut down...
...famous German V2, designed in 1939, still holds the altitude record for single-stage rockets: 114 miles.* This week the U.S. Navy showed pictures of the Viking, designed to top the V2. The Viking is slimmer and lighter (10,000 Ibs.) than the V-2 (see cut). In the picture, the complicated structure to the left of the rising rocket is a "gantry": a staging from which technicians can reach all parts of the rocket as it stands on its launching platform. When the rocket is ready for launching, the gantry is moved away...