Word: overlies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In their early editions, the New York Mirror, the Des Moines Register and the Chicago Tribune even rated a love bomb over the atom bomb, put their banners on the story of a man charged with engineering an airplane explosion to kill his wife (see THE HEMISPHERE). The Trib also...
For the last 20 years, while flightier musicians have run off after every new craze in jazz, swing or bebop, Wayne King has stuck tenaciously to the waltz. This week, his single-mindedness rewarded with a whopping $200,000 TV contract, the "Waltz King" began a 40-week show for...
"Do They Like It?" King's detractors complain of his relative musical ignorance and object to his top-sergeant tactics in rehearsing for hours over the simplest phrases. His critics are also bitter because some "original Wayne King compositions" (Josephine, The Waltz You Saved for Me, Lullaby for Latins...
Determined Nations. Some of the early guesses about the timing were remarkably accurate. In One World or None (March 1946), Drs. Frederick Seitz and Hans A, Bethe, who worked on the U.S. bomb, estimated that "any one of several determined foreign nations could duplicate our work in about five years...
Radioactive Dust. The instruments that recorded the Russian explosion were many and varied. Atom Bombs that explode in the air form mushroom clouds of intensely radioactive dust that billow high in the atmosphere. The dust particles, so small that they fall very slowly, are carried long distances by the wind...