Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unfolded in an atmosphere that varies between Mr. Hammerstein's old Norman Rockwell whole someness and a new, Broadway, meretriciousness of second-rate sick jokes and falsie gags. Mechandizing the cuteness of a whole covey of little children (including one with a hula hoop, who got a big hand) provides the authors with one of several opportunities to be wholesome and meretricious at the same time...
...with black faces were working in Mine No. 4 of the Dominion Steel and Coal Company when they heard and felt an explosion. The result did not become clear until two days later when all precincts were heard from and 39 men were counted dead. The newspapermen on hand for the occasion were figuring on an even higher total, but the miners, who are a courageous lot, fooled everybody. Promptly adjusting to the situation in which they found themselves, many of the men lay on their bellies and sucked air through tiny holes in a pipe. Some lay on their...
Instead of the usual single control stick, the X-15 has three. One is designed to resist the multiplied weight of the pilot's hand or body when he is subjected to his plane's acceleration under the push of its rocket motor because of heavy G-load or because of its deceleration on slamming down into the atmosphere. But when the X-15 is on a ballistic trajectory above the atmosphere, with its engine cut off, the pilot will be weightless. He will then shift to a second stick that will give him better control in space...
...which appears four times weekly in the New York Herald Tribune and is syndicated in 200 newspapers here and abroad, and from the books and other articles he writes, he receives an income handsome enough to surround himself with the trappings of the luxurious life. These include suits faultlessly hand-tailored on London's Savile Row, and what he calls the "excessive comfort" of a plush bachelor's house on Dumbarton Avenue in Washington's Georgetown. He is respected, if not loved, by federal officialdom, which he frequently treats with the loftiness of the master ordering...
...write amiably," he writes, "when, as it were, you have the ugly future burning in your belly." The big question is: "Can the free societies survive, and if so, how?" In 15 years at the trade, Alsop has never said that they can't. On the other hand, he has never said that they...