Word: fronte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Churchill bluntly challenged Prime Minister Clement Attlee to send Parliament home and set the election for early in 1950. Attlee, slumped on the government front bench and looking funereal in his black coat and neat striped trousers, seemed not to hear. But London political dopesters now think the election will be held earlier than Labor had planned. Best guess: February or March...
...pigtails and hornrimmed glasses exhorted her audience shrilly: ". . . A bright new future is ours . . . let's give cheers to Chairman Mao and the new People's Republic . . ." When the applause was over, a mixed glee club took over with propaganda-packed songs: Sending off Sweethearts to the Front, Chiang's Reign Is All a Mess, and The Glorious New Five-Starred National Flag...
...thing. They had no use for Wisconsin's 40-year-old Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, an ex-Marine tailgunner who, in 1946, had defeated Evjue's good friend, Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr. In 1947 Parker dug up, and Evjue delightedly splashed across his front page, the fact that McCarthy had been compelled to fork over some $3,500 in back income taxes on stock-market profits when the Treasury disallowed some of his deductions. Last week, it was Senator McCarthy's turn to rub both Evjue's and Parker's noses...
Color with Fields, In the CBS color system (called "field sequential"), the transmitting camera, like the ordinary black & white camera, has a single Image Orthicon "seeing" tube. In front of it is a spinning disc with segments of blue, green and red transparent plastic. When a blue segment is in front of the tube, the camera sees only the blue light coming from the scene being televised. When the disc has turned a little, putting a red segment in front of the tube, the camera sees only the scene's red light. Next, it sees green through a green...
...tube, one-color "fields" go out over the airwaves and appear one after the other on the face of the receiving "picture" tube. All of them are white, since the "phosphor" (the luminescent substance) on the tube's face glows only in white light. But in front of the receiving set's picture tube is a second spinning "color disc" (see diagram). This disc is synchronized so that a blue segment is between the tube and the eye of the viewer whenever a "blue" field is flashing on the tube. So the eye sees the field in blue...