Word: detectives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could detect that Crimson goalie Algy Allen had been playing midfield last Saturday. He performed brilliantly in the nets all afternoon, helped in no small measure by his defense and midfielders, who fed the attackers with efficiency and accuracy...
...same week the U.S. looked to its military power. Defense Secretary James Forrestal urged one of the biggest defense budgets the U.S. has ever had in peacetime. Despots, he warned, move only when they detect weakness in their neighbors. Hitler had once said: "Our enemies are little worms-I saw them in Munich." There was a parallel in the situation today. "But the odds are not yet on Russia or war," said Forrestal, "the odds are still on the U.S. and peace. . . . For once in world history an aggressor will be forewarned of our determination backed up by our strength...
...penetrate beyond the appearances of daily experience to the inner core of life. For this she employed three essential symbols : Time, Space and the Sea, the perennial aspects of life's hazy patterns. By concentrating all of her attention on a moment's experience she tried to detect its ties with the past, its anticipation of the future. And while she could not answer the questions she posed, she found in the sea, with its recurring waves, a mirror of the ultimate reality of human existence...
...bees acted like the cockroaches, crawling frustrated outside a heat-transparent window with sweet-smelling honey vapor behind it. Apparently both cockroaches and bees could smell vapors at a distance from their antennae. This may explain how certain creatures, such as male moths seeking their females, seem able to detect odors far downwind...
...would take a Freudian to detect what shame-free message Gugel has thus found in Cinderella, but churchgoers will be likely to find his surrealist chapel disturbing. By last week Gugel had completed the two side panels for the altar. One of them showed a ship built up from a thumb and forefinger keel, with its sail tattered and twisted about half a face. The title: "Resurrection" (see cut). The other panel, "Martyrdom," was even more obscure. It consisted of a mask, a bloody accordion, and some high-heeled shoes in the snow...