Word: meteoric
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...Like a Meteor. After starring in a Manhattan revival of Golden Boy (TIME, March 24), Garfield recently decided to come completely clean. He wrote out a statement of how Hollywood's Communists had fooled him. In a brooding mood, he quarreled with his wife, left her and his two children and moved into a hotel...
Whipple suggests that almost all meteor damage could be eliminated if rockets and space stations were sheathed with a thin layer mounted slightly away from the projectile's skin. Such a layer, especially if filled with certain types of dense, plastic-like gases, would cut the velocity of the smaller particles and prevent them from damaging the rest of the ship...
Green Fireballs. The latest turn of the saucer cycle began last year when Professor Lincoln LaPaz, a reputable meteor expert of the University of New Mexico, announced that there was something very odd indeed about a series of eight bright green fireballs seen over the Southwest during a 13-day period. Meteors are seldom green, said LaPaz, and big ones seldom pass in close sequence over the same place. He suggested that the green meteors might be man-launched missiles...
...magazine's articles and cartoons, four years later boosted him to "managing editor for fact," i.e., everything but fiction and cartoons. Only once, in 1936, did Shawn write a piece for the magazine, a wry fantasy called "Catastrophe," in which New York City was completely destroyed by a meteor and quickly forgotten by everyone...
Next day the Communists won one of their few victories: knocking down three early-model Australian Meteor jets and one U.S. F-80, and losing only two MIGs. Cease-fire and lull were two words that airmen on both sides could not hear and did not heed...