Word: dust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abolition of the principle of parity (TIME, Jan. 28) threw physics into an enjoyable turmoil from which it has not yet emerged. If long-sacred parity was laid low, the physicists argued eagerly, why shouldn't other lordly laws bite the dust too? Even gravitation, supposed to be pretty well explained by Einstein's general relativity, might be vulnerable. Last week the top award ($1,000) of the Gravity Research Foundation, New Boston, N.H. went to a paper by Physicist Philip Morrison of Cornell and Astronomer Thomas Gold of Harvard which argues that somewhere in the universe there...
SCIENTISTS everywhere believe that the outcome of a major war employing nuclear weapons to maximum effect would be a planetary disaster. People all over the earth would die or be sickened or crippled by radioactive dust sifting down from the stratosphere...
Even before the Bravo explosion, the AEC had begun to check worldwide radioactivity and is still at it. In the gardens of U.S. employees abroad, pans exposed to the sky collect rain and dust. Their catch is sent periodically to the AEC along with foreign cheese and other, foodstuffs. Another AEC importation: foreign human cadavers for radioanalysis...
Some experts in the Agriculture Department believe that without the bank wheat production would be far higher, especially with rains in the old dust-bowl area. But the truth is that any surplus production avoided in wheat is turning up in rye, oats, grain sorghums or other crops, as farmers put their idle acreage into uncontrolled crops. One thing the soil bank once more proved was that, barring police-state controls, farmers will always outsmart bureaucrats. This year, for example, most farmers gave the soil bank their poorest acres, keeping their best for their price-supported crops. This was legal...
...final pages. The islanders rebel and, with the aid of beneficent magic, rout the pirates. Like his charming 1950 fable, The Thirteen Clocks, Thurber's new fairy story is written for a special breed of children and adults-those who like their anagrams and riddles sprinkled with poetic dust. Curiously, the author deprives Pirate Black of an argument that might have won the Ooroovians to his cause: even with the abolition of all 0-words, they would still retain life, liberty, and the ability to pursue happiness...