Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mention of Geneva brought Khrushchev to Eisenhower's dramatic proposal for an exchange of military blueprints and unhindered aerial photography. Never was Russia's rejection made more emphatic. Said Khrushchev: "Flights over territories and aerial photography can only fan war passions and war psychosis . . . This actually is a means used for the purpose of finding out more about the forces of another country...
...effect of this is to make TV pictures show up on distant screens, sometimes thousands of miles away. During the last sunspot maximum, in 1947, programs from London were often received in New York City, and one fan in South Africa reported picking up London. The last sunspot minimum was in April 1954 (sunspot count: 3.4). The curve is now heading up mightily. Last month the count was 90.2, and the maximum is expected to come in about two years...
...would take the horses out of her carriage to drag her in triumph to her lodgings. Yet she had the pathos of sincerity that lacked only the understanding of itself. In a sense, her stage appearance was a franker, more straightforward sensationalism than that practiced-among gossip columns, fan magazines and semi-public scandals-by Lola's Hollywood successors...
Year after year the fights rage around the hot stove: who were the greatest baseball players of all? Every fan has his favorites; naming an all-star team* is one sure way to start an argument. Should Collins be put ahead of Lajoie at second? Was Gehrig better than Sisler on first? Only at one position is there no competition. The tallest tales oldtimers tell ring true when they talk about Shortstop John Peter Wagner...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). COST fan tutti, in English, with Steber, Thebom, Munsel, Valletti...