Word: inventing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Archibald Montgomery Low, 68. whimsical, wide-ranging British physicist, rocket expert, inventor and author, who in 1914 demonstrated a primitive form of television, three years later designed the first guided missile, went on to invent a device to photograph sound, a system of radio torpedo control, a drop-proof cigarette ash and a golf putter that lit up when swung correctly, turned out some 30 books of history, science prophecy, weapons development and scientific theory; of a lung ailment; in London...
...must reverse their long-established campaign roles. For the first time in 24 years, the in-power Republicans will concentrate on the positive process of placing their record before the voters. For the first time in 24 years, the Democrats must go over to the attack, must find or invent issues...
...high dollar, pay off in the low dollar." Says he: "Then there's the $200-or 300-a-year income-tax deduction you can take for interest payments. If we don't need anything after we get out of debt, we'll go out and invent something...
...general words of advice to the cast might be in order. First, try to round out your role, be it large or small. That a playwright has written only a cardboard character into his lines is no excuse; it is then up to the director or the actor to invent something. This is especially true of small parts, on which the dramatist is likely to have spent little pains. Jacquelyn Zollo's Miss Jay is a good example; she was on stage only briefly and had but a handful of lines, yet achieved warmth and depth. I felt...
...false confession fabricated in 1937 by the NKVD concerning sabotage, espionage and diversion in a terroristic center in Leningrad. With unbelievable cynicism Zakovsky told about the vile mechanism for the crafty creation of fabricated 'anti-Soviet plots.' . . . 'You yourself [he told Rosenblum] will not need to invent anything. The NKVD will prepare for you a ready outline for every branch of the center; you will have to study it carefully and to remember all questions and answers which the court might ask . . . Your future will depend on how the trial goes and on its results...