Word: gnat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called him, belonged to an age of posturing geniuses and aesthetes (Burne-Jones, the Rossettis, Swinburne, Whistler, Oscar Wilde), was one of them but not one with them. With a few deft strokes of his caricaturist's drawing pen, he could put the lucubrations of a giant into gnat's perspective and keep the world itself in polite proportion. Wilde once remarked that he possessed the rare "gift of eternal old age." Despite his renown, Beerbohm remained a refugee not only from his talents ("My gifts are small, but I've used them discreetly and the result...
After Britain's New Statesman and Nation waggishly caricatured her in drawing and word ("Queen Edith [whose] mask is elaborate . . . eye-sockets . . . thumbed by a master") and accused her of "riding the elephant of publicity in Hollywood," cadaverous Poetess Edith (Faqade) Sitwell, like a glacier overriding a grounded gnat, coolly crushed the New Statesman's slurs. Her letter to the editor: "I cannot see that . . . my appearance and personality are the affair of any but my personal acquaintances . . . They are not, as [your correspondent] suggests, an 'achievement' but are . . . inherited. I am not descended from...
...will spend $10 million in Europe by 1957 to help NATO planemakers develop a lightweight jet fighter-bomber, small enough to operate from short airstrips close to the lines, yet big enough to carry a tactical Abomb. The three most likely candidates: Britain's Folland "Gnat" (TIME, Aug. 3), a new delta-wing jet designed by A. V. Roe & Co., and a light French plane, the "Baroudeur," that can reportedly nudge the speed of sound...
REVERSING the trend to more expensive and complex fighter planes, Britain's small Folland Aircraft, Ltd. is building a light, simple jet fighter, the Gnat, that could be produced in swarms to fight off bombers. Weighing only 5,500 Ibs. (v. 16,500 for the Sabre jet), the Gnat will carry twin 30-mm. cannons, and climb to 40,000 feet in less than five minutes. Northrop, Lockheed and North American have also proposed building lightweight jets, and the Air Force will soon ask U.S. plane builders to submit plans...
There is also the possibility--we should say probability--that Chiang could exert all the force of a gnat against Mao. Kuomintang officials themselves have reckoned that preparations will take a year. But even Chiang's much discussed "commando raids," could do little damage unless supported by American forces. If anything, Eisenhower's order will thus have little significance save balming the torture minds of those who demand action--any action...