Word: known
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hell Divers. In the predictable course of events, Thach followed brother Jim to Annapolis, where he quickly became known as "Little Jimmy" (the name has stuck, and among Navymen there are two Admirals Thach-Jim, now a retired vice admiral, and Jimmy of Task Group Alfa). As a crack plebe quarterback, Jimmy Thach showed a remarkable fighting instinct, but he never made the "A" team: a collision with a husky fullback dislocated his shoulder, ended his football days. "What shall I do?" he asked the doctor plaintively. The tongue-in-cheek reply: "Try wrestling." Jimmy Thach did just that, made...
...foreign aid has come a long way from the postwar days when the simple criterion was to reward friends and to deny foes. The money doled from the U.S. till last week, to an odd set of customers, still had the same general purpose as the weapon once known to Europeans as "the cavalry of St. George."* But on both sides of the cold war, foreign aid was now devoted to far more complex purposes...
...come under the influence of a wealthy young Arab nationalist who dominated him "almost to the point of hypnosis," and had ordered him to set off bombs in Jordan. His chief feeling of guilt, he said, was for having involved "innocent" Nadia in the bomb plots; she had not known what was in the package in her bag. Asked if she still loved Stepho, Nadia answered that "certainly, my love has faded a bit." Snapped the military prosecutor: "Only faded? Don't you now hate him?" Nadia glanced tenderly at Stepho, replied: "It seems you don't understand...
...presided over every kind of case, from the unsuccessful libel suit brought by Harold Laski against the paper that accused him of advocating violent revolution to the treason trial of Klaus Fuchs and the sensational cases of the "Chalk Pit Murder" and the "Vampire," he soon became known as the "Tiger." Green young barristers would sit up all night polishing their briefs before daring to appear before him in the morning and risk hearing him say, "Let's skip the rest and hear your last point, please." Even rich and famous lawyers, their names trailed by the initials...
...were skeptics who insisted that some of the quiz programs must be fixed. But the vast majority of knob twisters were stubbornly faithful, watched in breathless suspense and genuine admiration as contestants exercised their incredible memories. Questions might be tailored by the producers to fit a contestant's known areas of knowledge or ignorance, but the possibility of more blatant hanky-panky than that seemed remote. Too much money was at stake, too many people were involved, and if one show went sour-so the argument ran-they would all be suspect...