Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came to light when a secret report to Mayor Fiorello La Guardia was made public during Miller's trial. The report, dated April 4, 1944, noted that 28 detectives and policewomen had become dues-paying members of the party and had supplied daily reports on its inner workings. "So deeply did some of our investigators bore into the party," it stated, "that one of them acted as a courier between the American Communist Party and an agent in Portugal...
Trigger-nerved, bilious, plagued with insomnia, Carlyle found a captivated as well as a captive audience in wife Jane, who shared all of his symptoms and capped them with migraine headaches of her own. Many a letter finds Carlyle with his ear cupped to the inner symphony of psychosomatic complaints: "Alas, alas, I am losing my eyesight (sad symptom of bile) by stooping over this flat table." In the country, a cow lowing in pasture could ruin his night's sleep. London was all "noise, unwholesomeness, dirt and fret." In Germany, all coffee resembled a "physic." Paris proved...
...fascinate both students and medical men. Until Pollaiuolo, the only artists who seriously studied anatomy were the Greeks. Since dissection was forbidden by their religion, they carefully watched athletes in the gymnasia. Medieval art was less concerned with reproducing correct anatomical detail than with expressing the subject's inner light. Dissection was still frowned upon in those days (though doctors often carried it on in secret...
...Tokyo, his own," along the New Guinea-Philippines axis, with the Navy in a supporting role. The Navy was convinced that "relentless pressure by sea power could defeat Japan short of invasion." The Marianas, Admiral King felt, was the logical base from which to attack Japan's inner defenses. The Joint Chiefs of Staff ordered that both roads be taken...
...week by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution of Woods Hole, Mass. Originally developed by Henry Stommel and Donald Parson, the thermometer measures the long-wave radiation from the sea and from it shows whether the water is warm or cold. The gadget has been used successfully to track the inner edge of the Gulf Stream, distinguishing it from colder inshore water all the way from Florida up to George's Bank, off Cape...