Word: glassful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missile's warhead down through the atmosphere without too much heat damage-can be approached in very complicated or in very simple ways. A simple way that looks promising for even the fastest-falling missiles: sheathe the cone with Astrolite, a plastic made by H. I. Thompson Fiber Glass Co. of Los Angeles. Astrolite looks like the familiar brownish material used in workers' hard hats, but the fibers that reinforce the plastic are silica (quartz) instead of glass...
saloon And drinks there a small glass of wine...
...tosses it off-his glass of wine...
Desire Under the Elms (Don Hartman; Paramount). The stage is to the drama of Eugene O'Neill as a glass is to whisky. Take it away, and the stuff is not there. In the theater, where it ran 208 performances in 1924-25, Desire Under the Elms was properly furnished with a dark and womblike set, and the spectator could feel himself shut up in the incestuous nightmare at the core of the puritan mentality. But in this picture the atmosphere is dissipated in the irrelevant vastness of the VistaVision screen, and almost all the emotional pressure is lost...
...dread-provoking "city of salt." The natives promptly cut out his tongue and convert him into a devoted slave of their fetish-god. A turnabout ending suggests that man can drink deeply of neither good nor evil without finding its opposite mocking him from the bottom of the glass...