Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assorted objects against a cool sea painted on this week's cover by Artist Aaron Bohrod are familiar symbols of the oceanographer's trade. The brownish-pink PGR (Precision Graphic Record), from which the portrait emerges, is used to make a portrait of the ocean floor. The record that served as a model was actually made on July 15, 1958 and shows part of the profile of the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean some 70 miles northeast of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Behind the graph paper is a yellow Nansen Bottle, used by oceanographers to take water samples...
...clangor of political strife resounded in Washington last week-not Democrats attacking Republicans, or vice versa, but Democrats flailing at Democrats. With time running out on the first session of the 86th Congress, Democrats exploded with pent-up frustration at their inability to make a partisan record and get hold of an issue. Their No. 1 target: their own shrewd, well-tailored Senate majority leader, Lyndon Baines Johnson...
...Congress adjourns, and to come back and do it all over again at the second session." To capture the White House in 1960, Clark said, the party would need to write a Democratic record. "If the people cannot detect any difference between the parties, why should they wish to make a change...
Pure Rascality. After that, Demara promised himself to straighten out and make a new man of himself: Demara. But somehow it seemed terribly dull to be only one person at a time, and before long the unemployed impostor had another job. In the last two years he has had at least five of them: he served as a lieutenant warden in a Texas prison, a teacher among the Eskimos, a civil engineer in Yucatan, a couple of high school teachers. And in recent months, says Crichton, Demara has been working on what he gleefully calls "the biggest caper of them...
...Beatrice and Benedick, Rosemary Harris and Barry Morse make a strong pair of unwilling lovers, spitting out their wit with clarity and verve. Miss Harris properly "speaks poniards, and every word stabs"; and Morse "hath a heart as sound as a bell and his tongue is the clapper...