Word: panning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people. Thereupon he set out on a program toward constitutional monarchy. Though still autocratic in his ways, he has inspired modernization of his people and the country, remained devoted to the West (if not wholeheartedly to France). In this, he shunned Egypt's Nasser & Co. in their noisy pan-Arabism and holy-war complex against Israel, yet stepped forward in an earnest attempt to reach some solution with Tunisia's Bourguiba of the mess in Algeria (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...scalp. Then, with a drill and saw, Dr. Meyers removed a piece of the skull, four by five inches. Ultrasound cannot be transmitted through bone because on meeting such resistance it generates too much heat. With the skull flap out of the way, the surgeons made a shallow pan in its place, using a metal strip as border and the dura mater (the brain's parchment-like covering) as the bottom. This they filled with salt solution from which all gas had been removed (ultrasound is transmitted best through a liquid medium...
...bear children. Since she is married to a more human ruler, she must acquire a shadow or forfeit her husband's life. With the help of a witchlike nurse and surrounded by innumerable magic effects (a sword springing from nowhere, fish conjured from thin air into a frying pan, a chorus of "unborn children"), the empress searches for a likely shadow and nearly gets it from the wife of a good and simple-minded dyer. Eventually all dissolves, amid some first-rate Hofmannsthal poetry, into a mirage of symbolism about human and superhuman life, selfish and selfless love...
...twin gifts of perfect stage presence and quiet audience courtship, the jaunty, pinpointed song-and-dance-man skill of the vaudeville era. He knows every last little hop, skip and jump, and nudge, bop and scram; he is master of the soft shoe, the dead pan, the faraway smile. As Rumple, a newspaper-cartoon character in danger of extinction because his creator has lost the power to portray him, he fights for survival with tactics that happily are more Foy than...
...round-the-world Canadian mining and prospecting share operator (TIME, Feb. 4), who lined up so many interesting possibilities that he is taking off on a firsthand inspection trip to Japan, New Caledonia, Australia, Indonesia, Burma and Thailand. He said he can raise $200 million if the mining ventures pan out. Among the possibilities: a $7,000,000 to $9,000,000 deal with Bulent Yazici, executive vice president of Turkey's Industrial Development Bank, to build Turkey's first chrome-plating mill...