Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military terms, control of the moon represents the classical concept of the "high ground." Thus the lunar military potential takes on a new urgency in terms of observation and missilery. Says Air Force Brigadier General Homer Boushey: with moderate-sized telescopes, lunar observers could daily "monitor the positions of all ships at sea, all major surface construction, all above-ground missile sites" on the earth. The growing sciences of optics and radar observation already promise the tools to assure continuous observation of the turning earth and the pinpointing of objects as small as 100 ft. across...
Then De Gaulle, his manner calm and impersonal, moved on to more delicate ground: "No doubt Soviet Russia, in spite of having aided Communism to take root in China, recognizes that nothing can change the fact that Russia is a white European nation . . . face to face with the yellow masses of China, numberless and impoverished, indestructible and ambitious-a people that is building through trial and hardship a power that cannot be measured and that is already eying the open spaces over which it must one day spread...
...Before his hands were bound, Mahmud handed a ring to the executioner, an ancient custom intended to ensure a speedy death for a condemned man. The noose was slipped about his neck, and the hangman and his assistants hauled smartly on the rope. Mahmud shot six feet off the ground-then the rope broke, and he fell heavily to earth...
...heavens!" wrote the Carriere della Sera critic. Voted one of Italy's ten most beautiful women, Soprano Moffo was soon singing in major European opera houses, was signed by the Chicago Lyric Opera in 1957. She had turned down two previous offers from the Met on the ground that the proposed schedule demanded too much of her time. (This season she will appear also in the Met's Faust and Marriage of Figaro...
...Southern California (8-0)-beat Baylor, 17-8, as its massive line, anchored by End Marlin and Guard Mike McKeever (TIME, Oct. 26), gave up only three yards on the ground...