Word: instants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stations"' on the path of the solar eclipse will be ten well-equipped observatories strung out from Canada to Iran (see map). The biggest gap will be the U.S.S.R., where the Russians presumably have stations of their own. As the shadow sweeps past, each observatory will determine the instant of totality, i.e., the time when the moon is centered in front of the sun. This can be done by 1) taking high-speed motion pictures of the eclipse, 2) watching photoelectrically for the moment when the light from the sun is weakest, 3) photographing the sun's spectrum...
Miami Story (Columbia). "No matter how much you take off," says a hard female voice from the dark side of the room, "my gun will keep you covered." Mick Flagg (Barry Sullivan), ex-gangster, stops undressing, strolls casually toward the mysterious intruder (Beverly Garland) and lights a cigarette. Next instant, he flips the match at her eyes, leaps forward, grabs her gun, slaps her hard across the face and drags her to the light. She is beautiful. It is love at first fight...
That did not fool the Mundt committee's Counsel Ray Jenkins for an instant. McCarthy had charged the Army with "blackmail," he snapped, and if Cohn did not want to write out the details, he, Jenkins, would. Cohn backtracked, agreed to supply the information...
...Compiled by two veteran theme correctors-Martha Wright of the University of Massachusetts and Tony Hofford of the University of Rhode Island-the lexicon is not only a handbook on how to dow (prosper) at Scrabble; it is also a treasury of oddments to be mastered in a gliff (instant...
...chase scene, when the pursuit drives Danny into a theater, the audience witnesses what is surely the first performance of a classic ballet that ever included a cakewalk. Biggest laugh: Danny, posing as a British explorer at one point, is asked what he thought of the Himalayas. For an instant he looks flummoxed, then casually pip-pips: "Loved him. Hated...