Word: mass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...symbols of 1957 were two pale, clear streaks of light that slashed across the world's night skies and a Vanguard rocket toppling into a roiling mass of flame on a Florida beach...
Burma. U Nu, a true neutral in East-West affairs, has no illusions about Communists at home. His army has killed thousands of Communist insurgents in nine years' fighting, and recently stepped-up campaigns have resulted in mass surrender of rebels. Citizens may now travel, safe from guerrilla raids, in all but the most mountainous parts of the country. Strapped for foreign exchange as a result of a slump in rice exports and now-regretted barter deals with Communist countries, Burma has lately made some gains with its economic expansion program, though it still suffers direly from severe inflation...
...original capsules, tested at the military hospital and by the Ministry, were dangerous enough, but the mass-produced capsules contained about three times as much tin compound as the experimental ones. They were made with such primitive methods (pressed in a century-old gadget that looked like a wafer machine) that no two capsules had the same dosage of tin salt and "vitamin F." When the tin began oxidizing, further increasing its poisonous effect, the manufacturers merely noted that the ingredients became darker, and added artificial coloring to the gelatin coating. The ironic climax of the toxicologist's testimony...
...bound, a brilliant song-and-dance man. His triumph, to be sure, stems from something less than singing, and seldom exactly dancing; it grows from a leg-and-larynx zest, a mating of sales-talk incantation and engaging panhandle stride. And something of this solo zip is mass-produced in the festive small-town spin of Onna White's dances. Prettily singing the show's over-pretty romantic tunes, Barbara Cook provides a contrastingly quiet charm. The Music Man is not pure cream, only nice, fresh half-and-half. But it particularly catches the jubilant oldtime energy...
...pretty much a failure in school. She was skinny, freckled, and given to uncontrollable giggling even in the presence of sorrow. Her special love was her maternal grandmother, a lady so old and fat and on such good terms with the bishop that she was permitted "to hear Mass from her bedroom window." In a devoutly Catholic town ("If grandma would give me the money she spends on Masses, I'd be rich. I don't know if what I'm writing is a sin") Helena went through all the religious forms. Yet she could steal...