Word: mesa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Buttermilk Sky. Horse Heaven Hill, "the new 1959 Zane Grey novel," will bring instant recognition from the fans of such vintage Grey as Wild Horse Mesa and Riders of the Purple Sage. The prose clomps along on two-by-four stilts ("There was completed in his mind a resolve to go down into Idaho, when opportunity afforded"), and the dialogue echoes a tin-plated ear ("If you think I'm wonderful and if I think you're wonderful-it's all really very wonderful, isn't it?"). Instead of speaking their lines, characters "vouchsafe" them; they...
...fast is the field growing that a new development or refinement is announced almost weekly. Last week Texas Instruments began manufacturing a germanium "mesa" transistor; this week General Electric starts full production of a controlled rectifier that can handle a greater power load than a transistor...
...mother-in-law, Ason Tso, near Many Farms, 150 miles east of the Grand Canyon. Mary Grey-Eyes, 35, a broad-faced, well-built mother of two, seemed fit despite chronic gall-bladder disease. But one Saturday afternoon, as towering Black Mountain's shadow reached across Carson Mesa to the comfortless, slab-sided hogan, the pain in Mary's side got worse than ever. Soon she was nauseated and feverish; then her headache became unbearable...
ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev.--The United States ended its fall nuclear test series Thursday with a record underground blast that ripped a huge hole in the side of a mesa. The climax left scientists weary from days of round the clock effort to finish the series by the deadline time Thursday...
FRANK R. MAIORANA Mesa, Ariz...