Word: lateraling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington ("Blessed with that charm, the certainty to please," said the student quarterly), put in his freshman year at Swarthmore before returning to Moscow University. Troyanovsky first appeared in the Kremlin big picture as Stalin's interpreter in the 1947 conference with U.S. General George C. Marshall, later journeyed about the world with Khrushchev and Anastas Mikoyan...
...monitors at the U.S. missile-tracking stations in the South Atlantic searched the darkness one night last week. Suddenly they gaped; far above, starbright and hell-hot, a thing-it looked like a meteor-plummeted through the stars of the heavens and then disappeared over the horizon. Hours later in Washington, U.S. spacemen announced the news: Big Joe, the funnel-shaped prototype of the vehicle that will carry the first U.S. man into space in 1961, had been shot aloft in a test and had been recovered intact. Had a man been inside for the historic flight, he would have...
...city three times within 40 minutes. First target was Fire Chief Gann L. Nalley, who had ordered fire hoses turned on the mob marching on Central High last month; an explosion shattered Nalley's city-owned red station wagon parked outside his home. A second blast, 33 minutes later and eight miles away, blew in the glass front of an office building housing Little Rock Mayor Werner C. Knoop's construction firm. Five minutes later dynamite thrown through a ground-floor window partially wrecked the Little Rock school district's administrative offices, blew out windows...
...early last week from Chequers, country residence of Britain's Prime Ministers, Tory Squire Harold Macmillan earnestly read the lesson (Joel 2: 15-16) at the Anglican parish church of Ellesborough. "Blow the trumpet in Zion," he intoned; "call a solemn assembly: gather the people." Barely 36 hours later, after a fast flight to Balmoral Castle in Scotland, Macmillan officially advised Queen Elizabeth that he planned to call a general election...
...doggedly held the scientist responsible. "How do you feel now about your work during the war and its effects on my country?" "I greatly regret the abuse of science, but there is an old English saying, 'My country, right or wrong,' and that goes for Germany too." Later in his visit, the missileman's tone was softer. "There are still many scars in people's hearts," he said. "London has always been my favorite city. I want to say how sorry...