Word: etch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time fof Chop-Chop. A million candles etch the initials P. and C. against the night sky of Cincinnatus' home town. On the ride to the scaffold, bouquets of flowers pelt P.'s and C.'s open car. The whole vulgar holiday is surrounded by rules and rituals of elaborate illogic. Finally, the moment nears "to do chop-chop," as M'sieur Pierre puts it childishly; and childishly, too, the prisoner seeks to save his last shred of self-respect as he mutters: "By myself, by myself." Author Nabokov saves a climactic surprise for the chopping...
Rounding out two days of testimony, Chairman McClellan zeroed in on a reported plan by Teamster Shafer to jump a Southwestern driver, etch the word rat in acid on his forehead. Scowled angry John McClellan: "Don't you agree with me that anyone who would give such orders as that is a rat himself?" Slick-looking Teamster Shafer blushed, swallowed, declined to answer on ground that the answer might incriminate...
...week. That's all I need. With more, I'd become a blithering idiot." Concluded Susskind, addressing the disgruntled Cadillacs: "You seem to be wallowing in self-abnegation ... As opposed to making Olympian comments, why don't you-the men with a creative mark to etch-do something about...
...from an obscure early career at Harvard to present what is probably the most important theatrical production of the season. He did much the same thing last year when he presented Deathwatch. And he has spent the intervening time busily acquainting himself with the sundry persons and issues that etch the life of the college--with the consequence that he is one of the few undergraduates one can safely regard as a celebrity...
...snooperscopes, the image-converter is essentially a booster for light. In a vacuum tube, photons of light strike a cesium-antimony photocathode, which in turn gives off high-speed electrons. The electrons are accelerated through an electric field, hit a sensitive "retina" screen or a photographic plate, and etch out a crisp picture. Used in celestial photography, the image-converter proved impractical. Reason: water molecules in the photographic emulsion reacted with the cesium, destroyed the unshielded photocathode...