Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking in cold, forensic tones, Lloyd raised his voice only slightly in an effort to make himself heard above the laughter and vaudeville din of the Labor Opposition, whose parliamentary behavior was about as zoolike as the House of Commons gets. Lloyd argued that the Anglo-French attack on Egypt was justified by the "failure of the U.N. to keep the peace" in the area. He claimed three important objectives achieved: 1) the Israeli-Egyptian war had been stopped. 2) an international police force had been put into position to prevent its resumption, 3) Russian designs had been exposed...
When Britain's stringy-maned lion of letters, brash Author Colin Wilson, 25, published his 288-page tract, The Outsider (TIME, July 2)-a widely hailed diagnosis of civilization's sickness and a prescription of a new religion to cure it-few had ever heard of him. But Britons have been nearly deafened ever since by Wilson's roaring. Aping the brusque hyperboles of one of his few idols, George Bernard Shaw, Wilson has gone about insulting both hosts and lecture audiences, damning society for its regressive complacency, whimsically denigrating Shakespeare ("a great poet with the mentality...
...breach to be healed." On Washington: "Much like Paris, not too different from Vienna." On Manhattan's lack of "dream department stores": "The shops there are so much more like European shops than I had expected. They are cozy and untidy, and even deal in antiques." Having heard that U.S. life was a mad merry-go-round, Lady Caccia was agreeably surprised: "I don't find...
When Rossby heard about these winds, he saw at once that they must be associated with the long, high-altitude waves that he had discovered. He named them the "jet stream." After the war he worked out a highly mathematical theory to account for the wind. Now the jet stream is used in the flight-planning of both civil and military airplanes. Its behavior can be predicted to a considerable extent by Rossby's theories...
...long enough period. C.M. & M.'s answer was to throw a $5,000 chicken barbecue last summer for Wise County landowners, and explain in neighborly fashion why the sales of gas on their land was being held up. The disgruntled voices of Wise County were heard all the way to Washington, and last week the FPC granted...