Word: frail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spacemen returning from their high ride splash their frail capsules in the hostile sea. Costly fleets of ships and aircraft are required for their rescue, and many a U.S. spaceman is convinced that the craft would be far better off landing on land. The best space landing spot in the U.S., says the Bulletin of the Holloman, N. Mex., section of the American Rocket Society, is right near Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico...
...dowager on the far side of 70-or the near side of 80-tiny, frail Louella Parsons is still adding busily to the legend. When Lolly prattles in her column (syndicated in 70 papers) of Hollywood's marital triangles and parallelepipeds, when she sifts the dust from its closets, even when she gives a plug to a young star she thinks deserving, her chatty, outrageous blend of cat's claws and sentimentality enthralls 20 million readers. In 316 freshly printed pages about herself, Louella does not change the formula: her book is a marvelous and implausible edifice built...
...concluding days of Moscow's 22nd Party Congress were surrounded by a strange air of magic and the supernatural. The long list of speakers ritually cursing Stalin's memory was joined by frail, elderly Darya Lazurkina, who, as a fresh-eyed girl in 1902, had been a devoted pupil of Lenin. She was also one of the multitude of Reds purged by Stalin in 1937, and last week Darya told 5,000 rapt delegates that she had survived 19½ years of prison, labor camp and exile only because "I always had Lenin in my heart and asked...
...Drina, a history-haunted hymn to his native land, while it was still under Nazi occupation. A onetime president of Yugoslavia's Communist Federation of Writers but never a party member, Andric (pronounced Ahndreach) celebrated his Nobel award with a slivovitz toast to Sweden, hoped despite his frail health to make the trip to Stockholm next month to accept the $48,300 prize...
...graphic as the LIFE study of Rio. Ballot's picture of eight Gonzaleses crowded into a single slum-house bedroom had much the same impact as Parks's shot of the Rio favelados crowded into theirs. Fact was that Ballot's most moving picture-Gonzales' frail nine-year-old son Ely-Samuel asleep on a dirty mattress and apparently crawling with cockroaches-was posed. The photographer caught and distributed the roaches for his purpose. Still, the picture was no distortion of fact: in the Gonzaleses one-room apartment Cameraman Ballot found an inexhaustible supply...