Word: gauntlet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into man's nature. (The last is the view of a group that might be called 'Atheists for Niebuhr')." All these views, says White, have one thing in common: the desire "to avoid identifying religion with any claim to knowledge that might have to run the gauntlet of scientific test." Most contemporary thinkers want "to make religion fill the void created by the dissolving effects of science, both physical, as at Hiroshima, and spiritual. This has been the outcome of the 19th century's hot war between science and religion. It has ended in an uncomfortable...
...Gauntlet of Fire. No airman can predict the kill rate if the attack force of 900 Soviet bombers strikes. "There are," said General Chidlaw, "too many intangible factors. Obviously, if the enemy struck in perfect weather and in small numbers, we'd do a most creditable job in cleaning him up ... Bad weather and a tremendous mass of enemy planes might give us a hard time." Currently, U.S. defenses have serious defects: ¶ The Skysweeper guns cannot shoot fast enough to hit a supersonic jet or far enough to defend a target, as the gun's range...
...York extend north to Labrador). Elsewhere, the jets might scarcely have time to make their pass before the attack reaches target areas. Eventually, as the arctic radar net is spun, other bases may be built in the Far North so that attackers would have a longer, more lethal gauntlet to run on their...
That the French colonial contraption is weak I never doubted, but now I have also seen how brutal and cowardly it is. For an action such as you described in "Running the Gauntlet" to be perpetrated by a civilized people seems incredible. After this revelation I firmly side with the Arab patriots, and hope that they will soon send the French packing back to their homeland...
Like most successful old fiction pros, Novelist James Street (The Velvet Doublet, The Gauntlet) knows the value of a timely yank at the heartstrings. In his latest, Goodbye, My Lady, the yanking is continuous. His hero is Skeeter, a likable 14-year-old who lives with his illiterate uncle in a shack on the edge of a Mississippi swamp. Life is simple to the point of vacuity-a little huntin', a little fishin', some wood cuttin' when the groceries run low. "Swamp sprout" that he is, Skeeter dreams mostly of a "li'l old" shotgun. Uncle...