Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the guarded doors, Military Specialist Mahon and his committee had heard facts about U.S. missiles that for a long time have been smothered in security and distorted by political wrangling and unseemly interservice bickering. Most solid piece of news: the Air Force's intermediate-range Thor, while still in the testing stage, has proved its reliability, is already on a production-line basis (TIME, Nov. 25), and production can be speeded promptly...
...years ago, he told the court, one of his wives came down with a nervous ailment, and when doctors failed to help her, Barzilai bethought himself of a miracle-working Yemenite rabbi whom he had heard of in nearby Akir. Barzilai went to see him and was at once impressed. Rabbi Barti held a sheet of blank paper over the kerosene stove, and slowly there appeared a message on it signed by the Angels Gabriel, Michael and Raphael. A talisman to cure Barzilai's wife would be found on the rabbi's roof, said the angel...
Solomon's Throne. Barzilai was delighted. But when his wife grew worse instead of better, he went around to Rabbi Barti again. What he heard this time was even more wonderful. "I have been told by the angels," said the rabbi, "that you are the Messiah, and once this is established you will be able to help your wife yourself." To prove that he was not lying, Barti took an oath on the Torah that all he had said was true...
...hunting expedition in Missouri, baseball's grandest unretired old (41) man, New York Yankee Outfielder Enos Slaughter, trailed his two companions and their setters by about 10 yds. Suddenly the two other hunters heard a thud just behind them. Whirling around, they saw Slaughter grinning and, a later paced-off 30 ft. from him, a rabbit kicking its last. Said Marksman Slaughter: "Well, you wouldn't want me shooting back here, so I just whomped it with a rock." Then he modestly added: "Shucks, it wasn't moving...
...caveman could count only "one, two, one, two, and a heap.'' He describes the earliest numerals, explains the origin of the decimal system, shows how ancient merchants used their counting boards, stages a computation race with an abacus expert, tells about the discovery of zero." Now I heard every thing," grumbles Gargle. "Zero- zero means nothin' Baird, and you say the discovery of nothin' is a world-shaking event." In dealing with modern computers, Baird must include a quick explanation of the binary system.* He works his way into algebra with the equation...