Word: franked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Citizen's Complaint. Last week many Britons were looking longingly at a Scandinavian answer to this problem-the institution of the ombudsman (pronounced om-boods-maw), a word that translates roughly as "the grievance man.'' Founded in Sweden 150 years ago in frank imitation of the ancient Roman 'tribunes of the people," whose job it was to watch the administration of justice and give assistance to citizens who were treated harshly, it has since spread to Finland and Denmark, is likely to be adopted this fall by Norway...
...Arizona location, Air Force Reserve Colonel James Stewart, playing an Army major in a blood-and-mud World War II movie titled Mountain Road, stepped front and center, got an almost-legal field promotion. The film's technical adviser, retired Army Brigadier General Frank Dorn, pinned stars on the collar of "Major" Stewart's soiled fatigue uniform. Cinemactor Stewart, a World War II bomber pilot and group commander (20 missions), had just got word from Washington that the Senate Armed Services Committee had unanimously approved his promotion to real-life brigadier rank. His upgrading had been blocked since...
...role of Renata demonstrated one reason why Flaming Angel (now available in a Westminster recording) is so rarely produced: the heroine, onstage and singing almost constantly, is required to deliver some of her most memorable lines while crawling on the floor or hopping in hysterical convulsions. Said Director Frank Corsaro plaintively about the work: "I want to move it to New York, but nobody wants...
...Frank Langella, who turned in two excellent performances in the Ionesco plays at Tufts a few weeks back, is a bit gawky and uneasy in the role of the young architect. Hopefully he will bring more poise and decisiveness to his movement as the run progresses. For he is one of the most versatile young actors seen in this community in quite a while...
Recently Dr. Frank Donald Drake of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, W. Va. theorized that Jupiter's radio waves do not come from the atmosphere at all but from a vast Jovian version of the double doughnut of Van Allen radiation that surrounds the earth. Ionized particles from the sun zigzagging back and forth in Jupiter's magnetic field must be sending out "synchrotron radiation" like the circling particles in a synchrotron. The theory alerts future space explorers to steer well clear of Jupiter. If their ship should cruise too close, they might be fried...