Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greatest Explosion. What the corporal saw and reported from his own perch was the result of the biggest explosion ever set off by man. It happened several hundred miles away from Kwajalein, somewhere in the U.S. proving ground in the Marshall Islands. In a precautionary rehearsal of a formal test shot from an Air Force bomber that will take place sometime in the next two weeks, U.S. scientists had exploded a thermonuclear device atop a tower. The force of the blast completely surprised them...
...blast upset plans for the formal test shot, which will be witnessed by the AEC, the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee, and Dr. Edward Teller, the scientist principally responsible for the thermonuclear weapon. While scientists feverishly recalculated their data and tried to explain the unexpected force of the big blast, the formal test was postponed a few days. That test, in which a thermonuclear device will be dropped from the bays of a B-36 on the shrouds of a huge parachute (to give the plane time to get out of the way), is expected to duplicate the March...
...California, where he hopes to win his party's nomination for Congress from the 26th District in spite of his formal admissions of wholesale adultery (later denied), Candidate James Roosevelt found the going rough. Protesting his endorsement by the district's Democratic Council, the South La Cienega Democratic Club withdrew from the parent group with the blast: "On the basis of [Roosevelt's] unique attitude toward the Seventh Commandment . . . we would rather not be a party to this reckless gambling of our present Democratic seat in Congress...
...first formal test of the 1953 Submerged Lands Act, the U.S. Supreme Court this week denied Rhode Island and Alabama permission to file suits contesting the right of Congress to give seaboard states the land under U.S. coastal waters (tidelands). In an unsigned opinion, by a vote of 6-2 (Justices Hugo Black and William Douglas dissented; Chief Justice Earl Warren disqualified himself), the high court held that "the power over the public land . . . entrusted to Congress is without limitation...
Director Lehmarm, 59, was always mixed up with the theater. After graduation from drama school (with a first prize), he joined the famed Comedie-null soon left the formal atmosphere to become, at 26, Paris' youngest theatrical director. Stressing dazzle in his productions, he brought Paris such musical shows as Show Boat, New Moon and, lately, Annie du Far-West...