Word: elements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been set up to handle the new weapon and 2) the prime contract had been awarded to Accuracy Inc. of Waltham, Mass. Accuracy Inc., said the reports, was letting subcontracts for the MOLE's propulsion system ("an atomic engine energized by the molecular disintegration of whatever element it traverses") and its molizing system (a special reverse cone which pulls the dirt in after the missile so that its path cannot be tracked from the air). On Aug. 4, the MOLE was successfully fired from its sinking site in Death Valley. It went into orbit at "depths variously reported...
...calibre of play was none too high, and there was no suspense element once the Crimson got its offense functioning late in the first half; but the final result was enormously satisfying--at least to all the spectators on the west side of the Stadium...
...these pages various severe statements, based on the events of the moment, are set down about General de Gaulle, and certainly I had continuous difficulties and many sharp antagonisms with him. There was however a dominant element in our relationship. I could not regard him as representing captive and prostrate France, nor indeed the France that had a right to decide freely the future for herself. I knew he was no friend of England. -Winston Churchill: The Hinge of Fate
Fortunately, Joseph de Pasquale, the principal violist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who was guest soloist in the Berlioz, produced a performance which was absorbing enough to take attention away from some of the orchestra's defects, and at the same time add an element of warmth which was absent from the orchestral accompaniment...
Comedian Gleason (CBS), more energetic than ever after slimming down from 284 Ibs to 220, forgot to put the same pep in his format. Only fresh element to appear is Rumdum, who gets thrown out of saloons in pantomime; otherwise Gleason has retreaded the old sit-bys, e.g., the Poor Soul, Reggie Van Gleason III. (Reggie also crept into Gleason's performance of Joe, the philosophical boozer, in Playhouse 90's otherwise first-rate production of William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life.) Perhaps Gleason's worst mistake: replacing Art Carney and Audrey Meadows...