Word: flushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Salmon to Smelt. With ice out, landlocked salmon were striking ferociously in Maine. Down through New England and the North Atlantic seaboard, the trout seasons opened with a flush of high water and goodly bags of 15-inchers. Michigan fishermen were out by the thousands, dropping night crawlers, minnows and plugs into the cold water. Some Michigan devotees, in non-trout waters, were taking so-called "rough fish," e.g., carp and suckers, by an ancient method: lantern fishing with a bow & arrow. Chicagoans were dipping for smelt along the lakefront, and Mississippians were getting ready to "hand-grab...
...eliminates unnecessary banners in favor of shorter headlines that "can be read without moving the human eyeball," does away with captions above a picture ("The movement of the eye is from the picture to the caption below; no one reads the line above"). His two favorite headline discoveries: "Flush-left" headlines, which start evenly at the left border, and "kickers," i.e., a short, tone-setting line over the main head. "My ambition," explains Farrar, "is to make type sing...
Handy Pretext. A flush of horror and foreboding spread across Israel. The bombing was the most serious anti-Communist incident since Moscow came out in the open with its anti-Jewish campaign (others: the firing of a Soviet bookshop in Jerusalem; a hand-grenade explosion at the Czech legation). This is as bad as the assassination of Count Bernadotte," said a civil servant. Will our people never learn?" Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett rushed a fervent apology to Moscow. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion cut short a vacation to lay the matter before the Knesset. "An abomination was committed by hooligans...
...asked himself in the flush of his fame, that "a sense always comes crushing upon me now . . : as of one happiness I have missed in life, and one friend and companion I have never made?" At 45, when he met Ellen Ternan, a blue-eyed actress of 18, he thought he knew the answer. When his wife objected to what was still, in Biographer Johnson's words, a "technically innocent" relationship, Dickens drove her to a separation while waging an acrimonious publicity duel with her family. But it took Dickens five years to coax Ellen to place "comfort before...
...exorbitantly expensive: a carrier task group consists of four carriers, must be supported by six cruisers or battleships, 30 destroyers, four scouting submarines, a minesweeping force, and a train of tankers and supply ships. By rough estimate (the Navy will not talk cost figures), such a force with flush-deck carriers costs $2.5 billion. One B50 bomber group, plus cost of air base, fighter protection, fuel, men and antiaircraft guns costs less than one of the new carriers completely armed. And the B50 group can deliver about 15 times as much bomb tonnage to the enemy in a given period...