Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During predawn darkness in the mid-Pacific atomic proving grounds, the B-52 intercontinental jet bomber Barbara Grace roared upwards from Eniwetok Air Base, the big bomb in its belly. A fleet manned by 13,500 men stood 39 miles off target-Namu Atoll at the northwest edge of Bikini Atoll-while the big B-52 climbed to an altitude of 40,000 to 50,000 ft. Suddenly a fireball flared through the dark-silver-white, creamy-white, orange, red, boiling outward to a three-mile diameter at a speed of hundreds of miles per hour. Along the horizon spread...
...Stuttgart, U.S. Mezzo-Soprano Grace Hoffman was asked to sing Amneris in Aïda, despite the fact that she had to sing in Italian while the rest of the cast sang in German. She wowed the crowd. In Amsterdam, U.S. Coloratura Soprano Marilyn Tyler accepted a rush call to sing Violetta in La Traviata, although she sang in unpopular German while the rest of the cast sang in Italian. After the first act, a year's contract was offered to her. In Munich, U.S. Tenor Howard Vandenburg arrived unannounced, auditioned and was hired on the spot. All over...
...crosshatched streets. A baseball park should be a place to get away from all this, but these days even a trip to Connie Mack Stadium is seldom a pleasure. The Philadelphia Phillies, now the only major-league team in town, are stumbling through their 1956 schedule with all the grace of corporation lawyers cutting up at a church picnic...
...Paris streets like countless gamins, working as a seamstress, waitress, vegetable seller, and drawing for pleasure on the sidewalks with pieces of coal. Tradition has it that she first caught the eye of Painter Puvis de Chavannes when she delivered his laundry. Struck by her slim figure and natural grace, he made her the model for all the figures (both male and female) in his most celebrated painting, The Sacred Wood. Other assignments soon followed. Auguste Renoir used her as the model for his contrasting pictures, Country Dance and City Dance. Toulouse-Lautrec's drawing of her, Gueule...
...proposal, however, Congress seems bent on destroying the few aspects of the plan which show any semblance of constructive action. The legislators have added so many restrictions to the President's discretionary powers that flexibility in the administration of foreign aid seems doomed. This flexibility was the one saving grace of the proposal, for it at least permitted the United States to act with speed and decisiveness. In limiting the President's authority in the field of foreign aid, the House Foreign Affairs Committee has voided his power to make long-term commitments, stop-gap emergency gifts, and loans...