Word: dashed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concrete shield of the cyclotron swung open, and a masked scientist dashed wildly down a 100-yard corridor in a race. His opponents: a set of disintegrating atoms. Though it was quite unlike the procedure normally associated with the grave and careful laboratories of science, the race was crucial to the performance of that increasingly difficult feat-the identification of a new element. The story of how the 100-yard dash helped a team of international scientists create element 102 is told in SCIENCE, Chemists...
...message of Rear Admiral (ret.) Samuel Eliot Morison, U.S.N.R., in his massive naval chronicle of World War II. Of the 14 volumes he blocked out, only three remain to be written. Vol. XI, The Invasion of France and Germany, 1944-1945, has the firm documentation and almost jaunty dash of its predecessors; it also shows that the many books already written about the Normandy invasion cannot keep another good one from being consistently interesting...
Prison Banquet. To the Texas of the 1880s Will Porter seemed the beau ideal. He dressed nattily, was quick-witted, had a good voice for midnight serenades or amateur theatricals, could dash off a funny verse or a caricature with ease. He married pretty, well-to-do Athol Estes, promptly moved in with her stepfather, and through the efforts of a friend got a job at Austin's First National Bank. All went swimmingly until 1894, when Will was 32 and the father of a five-year-old daughter. Then a sharp-eyed bank examiner dropped...
Encores Away. In Los Angeles, after scrambling in and out of a blazing apartment house helping two mothers and their eleven children to safety, Earl Livingston refused one mother's request that he dash back in once more...
Ready to Stay. Before newsmen could dash to their telephones with the news that the 15-month-old government (a Fourth Republic record) was ended, Mollet explained that, at President Coty's request, he had agreed to stay in office. "Resigning today might seem, to some people, like an attempt to run away," he said. Far from running away, Mollet was sending Foreign Minister Christian Pineau to demand a showdown against Egypt in the U.N.' Security Council...