Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea first occured to McCurdy at a Yale football practice session. "The pigskin was wet, but the fellows kept a surprisingly firm grip on the ball. They were wearing white gloves." McCurdy, however, has the Crimson's gloves dyed crimson to make the receiver's hand easy to spot...
Picking up the pieces after the Suez disaster, the British found themselves getting used to the idea that they are not as big a power as they thought they were. The discovery made some timid Little Englanders decide that the sooner Britain settles down to being a comfortable Sweden or Holland the better, but there were others who were looking for new combinations of strength and finding them in the idea of European unity. A clear and insistent emotional cry for "Europe" was being heard last week in both Britain and France...
Launching rocket-propelled missiles from a submerged submarine is not a new idea (TIME. May 22, 1950). Rockets deliver the same kind of thrust under water that they do in air or a vacuum, so they can start their journeys from a considerable distance below the surface of the ocean. Small rockets were actually fired 13 years ago from the deck of a submerged German submarine by rocketeers under Dr. Wernher von Braun, who now heads the Redstone group...
Lady in Ceremonial Dress (see cut), now owned by Cinemactress Claudette Colbert, gives some idea of the high style in the fine silk and brocade worn by the court beauties. Unfortunately, much of what was most perishable, including the scroll paintings and murals, has disappeared, and today is known only through third-or fourth-hand copies. That such might be their fate the T'ang artists may even have suspected. The legend of Artist Wu Tao-tzu indicates at least a premonition. After Wu had finished his greatest mural, he stepped through a secret door as his painting vanished...
...system has prevented the normal flow of Rumanian oil to Poland, forcing the Poles to ration oil and gas. And poor harvests in Rumania, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria have cruelly pinched already inadequate food production; East Germany, which had hoped to end food rationing in 1957, has dropped the idea...