Word: element
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convulsive fury. Like a giant marlin in a cascade of brine, a grey, bottle-shaped monster leaped into the afternoon. For an instant it hung against the sky-silent, ominous, streaming foam. Then it came alive with unearthly racket. Its tail belched flame, and it climbed into its new element with incredible ease. Arcing high into the thin, cold reaches of space, the first ballistic missile ever to be fired from a submerged submarine swung surely toward the south and east. Polaris, named for the mariner's bright pole star, needed no such guidance now. Brief seconds after...
...Security Council into emergency session on his own motion. Obviously, if the great powers were allowed to send troops to the Congo, the cold war would be extended to the Congo. His recommendation: the U.N. force should be drawn primarily from "sister African nations." But to provide the "element of universality essential to any U.N. operation," he suggested that neutrals and other nations not involved in the cold war should take part. For transport and food he was prepared to call on any and all of the U.N.'s 83 members, and the U.S.'s Henry Cabot Lodge...
...felt that he no longer had as much authority as he wanted. In 1952 he took over the Guggenheim, which had been called the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, and which had a reputation for being not only too narrow but often second-rate. Sweeney seemed in his element in trying to build up the collection-until he collided with the towering figure of Frank Lloyd Wright...
Lennox ended a four-year career as a medical missionary in Peking, returned to the U.S. to study the disease, about which he found "an element of fear and hopelessness that was shocking." By 1951 the girl had herself become a top physician in the fight on epilepsy, and Dr. Lennox could report that "with new methods and medicines, three-fourths of the sufferers can be relieved of three-fourths of their seizures, and many are completely relieved." Died. Lillian Sefton Thomas Dodge, 80, one of the original boss ladies of U.S. business, longtime president of cosmetics maker Harriet Hubbard...
...said that men are shaped by their environment, and no writer could match him in describing the environments that cradled or smothered, polished or abraded, buoyed or drowned his heroes. But in the end, his people are shaped by the past to which they are born. The decisive element in every Marquand novel is character, a quality he seemed to see as halfway between fate and breeding...