Word: laden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russell the "dictator of the enterprise." Russell drafted a 1,500-word statement and sent it winging about the world for comment and signature. The world will not long remember Dictator Russell (or Sponsor Einstein) for anything that appeared in the statement, which was a dreary mishmash of gloom-laden clich...
...world's leading experts on jet propulsion. Early in World War II, he left astronomy and joined a group of scientists who founded Aerojet-General Corp. of Azusa, Calif. Zwicky became research director, and under his leadership Aerojet developed JATO (Jet Assisted Take-Off) for rocket blasting heavy-laden bombers into the air. After the war, Zwicky picked the brains of German rocket experts and did outstanding work on rockets, missiles, torpedoes and submarines. In 1949 he resigned as research director of Aerojet, but stayed on as leading member of its all-important technical advisory board...
...conviction that America's only hope for survival is in unified effort for peace backed by firm international agreement to combat aggression, he graces the launching platform of the U.N. as a self-guided missile with a homing instinct, primed for a global trajectory, and well laden not with the seed of destruction but the hope of humanity...
...TWELVE PICTURES, by Edith Simon (367 pp.; Putnam; $3.95), is bathed in eerie, sth century Teutonic mists as British Novelist Simon (The Golden Hand) retells the dark, doom-laden Nibelungenlied. The events in it are drawn from somewhat different sources from the ones Wagner used in his familiar brooding operas. Siegfried, hero of the Rhine, jilts Brunhilde and marries a princess of Burgundy named Kriemhild. Brunhilde, a kind of earth-mother goddess, carries a torch for her lost love, but Hagen, the One-eyed, who believes the pagan gods have been flouted by this turn of affairs, pries from Kriemhild...
...that fill up the ceiling-high shelves on three sides of the room, overflow on the mammoth desk in the middle, and encumber every available chair with piles of envelopes. At 68, Wolfson can still scramble happily through the debris to look for a book or climb perilously on laden chairs in search of an obscure reprint from the Harvard Theological Review. After a lifetime of research he is considered today the outstanding Judaic scholar in the United States...