Word: fragmentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fire. Simultaneously. Captain Nolan, the aide who had brought the fatal order, galloped frantically across the van of the advancing brigade, waving his sword. "Had he suddenly realized that his interpretation of the order had been wrong?" No one will ever know, for at that moment a Russian shell fragment tore open Captain Nolan's heart...
...grew older, Dodgson learned the art of finding or creating "spirits of peace" that alleviated earthly wretchedness. Alice in Wonderland is the bright vision by which he is known, but it is a mere fragment of the whole-a solitary chip off the imagination of a man who built wonderlands in every spare moment. First in his fancy came the new and magic world of photography, and only the large shadow thrown by Lewis Carroll has prevented the Rev. Mr. Dodgson from being famed as one of the greatest of early photographers. He was also fascinated by anagrams, cipher writing...
...observatories. In any case, it would spend nearly half its time in the shadow of the earth, where it would be invisible. Most of the rest of the time it would be passing over the sunlit earth, and would look no brighter at best than a tiny fragment of the moon as seen by day. Best time to look for a small satellite would be at dawn or dusk, when it would be shining brightly above the dim-lit earth...
...despite the disappointing calibre of the rest of the magazine, Kimball's story, also a fragment of a larger work, is an achievement of considerable stature. His subject is commonplace enough: the account of a misfit in a boys' school--this time a Jesuit Academy. But his insight and craftsmanship, together with a remarkable control of language, result in an intensely interesting piece of prose...
...last week, as the 1954 campaign got rolling, Republicans and Democrats alike were dueling with jagged fragments of great issues, to the peril of the issues themselves. The jagged fragment that some Democrats liked best was a charge that the U.S. economy is in a recession and headed for worse (see below); they were saying privately that the only way for the Democrats to win control of the House and Senate in the fall lies in increased unemployment and depressed farm prices. The jagged fragment that some Republicans liked best was a sweeping and scurrilous charge that the Democrats form...