Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to "The Crucible" and "Death of a Salesman," Miller is the author of "All My Sons," "Man Who Had All the Luck," "Situation Normal," and a novel, "Focus...
Nobody, apparently, remembered Churchill's sage advice as the operational order was drawn for a routine, company-size raid by the U.S. 7th Division on the Korean front near Chorwon. The focus of attack was a knob called Spud Hill, in the T-Bone mountain area. Air and artillery were to plaster the enemy position, then tank-supported infantry was to move up, grab prisoners, finish destroying Communist bunkers and tunnels. Code word: Operation Smack...
...fashioned virtues at Boston's Roxbury Latin School. The son of a doctor, young Paul sometimes got to drive his father's horse & buggy. He soon knew that he meant to be a doctor himself; when his sister died of rheumatic fever, he began to focus his interest on heart diseases. Intern White was sent to England to buy the Massachusetts General Hospital's first electrocardiograph and learn to run the new-fangled thing. That was in 1913. Dr. White has been taking tracings of heart impulses ever since. He has gone on to become...
...Last MIG Lieut. James F. ("Dad") Low, 27, left Korea for the U.S. last week, through with combat but not with flying. The Air Force has belatedly become the focus of his life: with nine MIG kills to his credit, he is one of the three top U.S. jet aces.-At 25, Jim Low thousht of himself as a failure and a misfit. He had tried being a gambler, but could get nowhere with cards, dice or horses. Raised in Sausalito, a California town across the bay entrance from San Francisco, he had served three wartime years in the Navy...
...most interesting new U.S. novelist was a 38-year-old Negro, Ralph Ellison. His Invisible Man was the picaresque epic of a Southern Negro trying to find a place in a white man's world. Not always in focus, its flair and vitality nevertheless made it one of the year's standouts. From another world was Louis Kronenberger's witty verbal quadrille, Grand Right and Left, about a bored billionaire who collects people instead of butterflies...