Word: fed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burma. Three months after able General Ne Win took over the premiership and dismissed the Parliament, the capital city of Rangoon seems a different place. Gone are the huge heaps of filthy garbage that littered the streets, and gone the packs of wild pye-dogs that fed on them. Buildings are getting their first coats of paint since 1941. Night trains are running from Rangoon to Mandalay for the first time in ten years, attesting to greater security in the countryside. Virtually every known Communist agent and subversive has been jailed. Hordes of corrupt, bribetaking political hacks have been replaced...
...opening period. Although solo rushes by left wing Bud Higginbottom and center Dick Fischer during the first minute failed to net a goal, the third line tallied the second time it ventured onto the ice. Dave Crosby took two B.C. players into the back boards and Stu Forbes fed behind the cage to Crocker Snow, who skated around from the left side and after goalie Jim Logue had committed himself to the near corner shot into the far side...
...said, smiling almost despite himself. "What rule do I look at?" Twinkling his delight, Judge Smith cited the rule by which he could -and did -put off civil rights hearings for a precious while. Recalls Smith, puffing on his old curved pipe: "I felt like a well-fed missionary at a cannibals' convention. They were really mad at me. I don't blame them a bit. I would have been mad had I been in their shoes...
Solid-fuel rockets are the dream weapons of military rocketeers. They have no pumps or valves to go wrong and are always ready to fire. Their big trouble is that they are harder to control than liquid-fuel rockets, whose small combustion chambers, fed by flexible pipes, can be mounted on gimbals. When a liquid-fuel rocket takes off, it can switch its gas jet from side to side, correcting any tendency to veer off course. But solid-fuel rockets have no separate combustion chamber, only a nozzle to form the gases into a high-speed jet. Usually the nozzle...
Goldfish & Warriors. Other men often made better movies, but no one else ever catered with such monumental efficiency to the fickle, well-fed goddess that Hollywood describes as public taste. For years, DeMille was Hollywood: he founded one of its first studios in a barn. When he went west from New York in 1913, head of a syndicate that included a struggling vaudeville producer named Jesse Lasky and a glove salesman named Sam Goldfish (later Goldwyn), it was enough that he had the drive and energy to put together The Squaw Man, Hollywood's first full-length flicker, with...